New York 1L asks help with dispute
With unfair labor practice charges pending and after working more
than a year without a contract, members of New York 1L at the Quality House of Graphics/Image
Link are appealing for help to publicize their fight with the scofflaw company.
New York 1L members are leafleting such Quality House customers as Sony, Revlon, Chanel,
Ann Taylor, Ralph Lauren/Polo, and U.S. Tobacco. They are asking the public not to patronize
these companies that use Quality House for printing.
Breaking a 60-year tradition of amicable bargaining, Quality House unilaterally stopped its
contributions to the union-sponsored benefit funds.
Local 1L Pres. Patrick LoPresti said the National Labor Relations Board charged Quality House
with bad faith bargaining related to the company's demand to terminate union security provisions.
"Quality continues to insist upon this as part of its all too obvious and illegal effort to break the
union," LoPresti said. "Let there be no mistake. This union will never let an outlaw employer turn
the clock back 60 years and dictate a substandard contract for our members."
Local 1L is asking all GCIU locals and members to contact Quality House customers and ask
them not to do business with Quality House, which refuses to obey the nation's labor laws, and
ask them to urge Quality House to settle its contract dispute with Local 1L. Here is a list of
company officials, addresses, and phone numbers:
- Howard Stringer, President, Sony Corp. of America, 550 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y.
10022. Phone: (212) 833-8000.
- George Fellows, President and CEO, Revlon, Inc., 625 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y.
10022. Phone: (212) 527-4000.
- Patricia DeRosa, President, Ann Taylor Stores Corp., 142 West 57th St., New York, N.Y.
10019. Phone: (212) 541-3300.
- V.A. Gierer Jr., President and CEO, U.S. Tobacco Inc., 100 W. Putnam Ave., Greenwich,
Conn. 08630. Phone: (203) 622-3648. Fax: (202) 661-5613.
- Ralph Lauren, Chairman and CEO, Polo Ralph Lauren Corp., 650 Madison Ave., New
York, N.Y. 10022. Phone: (212) 318-7000.
- Arie Kopelman, President, Chanel, Inc., 9 West 57th St., 44 Floor, New York, N.Y.
10022. Phone: (212) 688-5055.
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