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Employees at MOM’s Organic Market in College Park, Maryland, are seeking to remove United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 union officials from their store. Maria Sanya Dobbins, an employee leading the effort, has submitted a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with assistance from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys.
The NLRB oversees federal labor law enforcement, including union certification and decertification elections. Dobbins' petition reportedly contains enough signatures to trigger a vote under the National Labor Relations Act. The proposed vote would involve all full-time and regular part-time employees at the College Park location.
Maryland does not have Right to Work protections for private sector workers, allowing UFCW officials to require union dues or fees as employment conditions. A successful decertification vote would remove these obligations and prevent union monopoly bargaining contracts.
