A strike of employees of the Jewish Community Council of Essex Country and its affiliated agencies, called after the community had withdrawn recognition from Local 11, UOPWA, as bargaining agent for its employees, was ended after 22 days. The strikers, who numbered about 60 of the 145 employees involved, returned to work.
An independent union was formed by some of the strikers and the Community Council announced its readiness to accept this union as bargaining agent for employees in each agency in which the union received a majority in elections between it and a C.I.O. union which had petitioned for recognition as bargaining agent.
Recognition of the independent union was predicated on several conditions including acceptance of the result of the balloting, and continued independence of the new union which “shall have no direct or indirect affiliation with any other union.” Previously the community had refused to deal with the-new union on the grounds that the change was one in name only and that the union had not severed relations with District 65 of the old union.
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