UE Service Center Workers

Overcoming one of the most intense and brutal anti-union campaigns UE has faced, workers employed directly by Stanley Associates – the lead contractor at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service Center (USCIS) in Laguna Niguel, California – today voted 103-75 for UE.

UE today won two more organizing victories among contract workers for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service Centers (USCIS). Workers employed by Choctaw Archiving at the Laguna Niguel, California center voted 124 to 11 for UE representation — an astonishing margin of more than 11 to 1! Voting at the same time, workers employed by Northrop Grumman, also at Laguna Niguel, chose UE representation by a decisive 105 to 40 margin. Both employers are subcontractors for Stanley Associates.

For the second day in a row, employees of a subcontractor of Stanley Associates at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Center have voted to join UE. Despite bad weather, workers employed by Northrop Grumman Technical Services Inc. travelled to NLRB polling places in St. Albans and Essex and voted 57-40 to become members of UE.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) have written a letter to Stanley CEO Philip Nolan expressing support for the organizing efforts of workers at the Orange County facility and calling on Stanley to respect the rights of its employees during the organizing process.

ST. ALBANS CITY – At 4:15 Thursday afternoon roughly two dozen contract workers from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) center cheered their victory in the second of four union elections. Workers for Choctaw Archiving Enterprise voted 51- 31 to join United Electrical Workers (UE).

UE was the big winner on the first day of union representation elections among nearly a thousand workers in Vermont and California whose wages and working conditions came under attack when a new federal contractor took over their workplaces.

In a 51-to-31 vote, workers employed by Choctaw Archiving resoundingly chose UE in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) supervised election held January 31st. Following the ballot count, cheering workers left the voting site at City Hall chanting the name of their new union.

Today workers at the California Service Center took a major step toward winning the justice and respect they deserve. 50 workers marched into the Administration's office and demanded that their employer, Stanley Associates and its sub-contractors, recognize their union. They informed Stanley that the majority of the employees at the facility have joined the union and that no violations of employee's rights on the part of Stanley will be tolerated.

This past Tuesday, workers from Stanley and contractors got to meet with other UE members and community supporters.

ST. ALBANS CITY — “You have put together a wonderful and a powerful campaign for justice,” Bob Kingsley, director of Organization for the United Electrical Workers (UE) told U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) contract workers on Tuesday.