Community to Rite-Hite CEO: Stop the Voter Intimidation

On Monday, faith and community leaders announced the filing of a formal complaint with the Government Accountability Board against Rite-Hite CEO Michael White for violating Wisconsin election law.  The complaint states that White’s illegal and misleading communication with employees, sent the week of October 21, 2012, was an attempt to intimidate more than 1,400 employees into voting for Mitt Romney.

In his message, chairman and owner Michael White, urged employees to “understand the personal consequences . . . if President Obama is re-elected.” The letter goes on to threaten the security of employees' retirement accounts and health care plans, stating that if the President is re-elected, "Every opportunity to make up for lost profits to taxes will have to be evaluated."   This is a violation of Wisconsin election law.

Community groups today called for the immediate retraction of the letter as well as a public apology to employees from Rite-Hite CEO Michael White. 

“What Michael White did was wrong; morally wrong, ethically wrong, and illegal according to Wisconsin law,” said Minister Greg Lewis. “We cannot sit idly by and watch employers abuse their power and intimidate workers into voting a certain way. We filed this complaint to stop this abuse of power and to protect our democracy.” 

Cody Misiak, a grocery store worker from Milwaukee, stated that “it is hard enough to know that at any moment you can be laid off and worry about your job security.  Now, we have to worry about voting the right way too?  This is not right, this is not democracy. Voting is a Constitutional right. No worker should fear retribution or retaliation from an employer.”  

“Our election laws are set up to protect employees from undue influence and intimidation. The statute is a codification of the very basic notion that bosses do not have the right to threaten the security of their employees’ jobs, retirement accounts, or health care plans based on who they vote for in a presidential election,” said Jennifer Epps-Addison, Economic Justice Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

Check back to the WI AFL-CIO Blog for updates on the status of the complaint.

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