Richard Khavkine at The Chief Leader reports Workers employed throughout Audubon’s Chapters say management has been dismissive of their contributions and insensitive to complaints of harassment and worse.  Now, a year and half after overwhelmingly voting to Unionize, roughly 250 Audubon Workers await a first contract, increasingly frustrated with the tactics employed by the Manhattan-based Conservation Organization.  Soncey Kondrotis, the Operations Manager at the Rowe Sanctuary’s Iain Nicolson Audubon Center and a Member of the Bargaining Committee with The Bird Union - which organized under the auspices of the Communications Workers of America, says: “This is about people who haven’t had a voice in a long time.  They haven’t felt safe, they haven’t had a livable wage.  We had managers and directors who at their best, were indifferent, at the worst, abusive.”

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