Union files charges of unfair labor practices against Quebecor

The Graphic Communications International Union filed 22 charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that Quebecor attempted to restrain, coerce and intimidate workers who seek to organize a union.

Workers in Quebecor plants in Covington, Tenn., and Olive Branch and Corinth, Miss., allege that the company illegally disciplined or fired workers after they participated in union activities.

Quebecor denied the charges. The company said about one-third of its U.S. workers, or more than 7,000, are union members.

“This is yet another example of the union leadership’s campaign to disparage and harass the company and its work force with false and misleading allegations,” the company said in a prepared statement. “Quebecor World has solid relationships with the union members of its work force and is one of the most highly unionized companies in the printing industry.”

The union also seeks to organize Quebecor plants in Kentucky, Virginia, California and Nevada.

Quebecor, based in Montreal, is the second-largest commercial printer in the world. It employs about 38,000 in more than 160 plants in 17 countries.

In Tennessee, Quebecor operates printing plants in Clarksville, Covington, Dickson, Dresden, Dyersburg, Kingsport, Memphis and Trenton. It has a sales office in Nashville.

Its Mississippi plants are in Corinth and Olive Springs.

Quebecor World Inc.’s shares closed Tuesday at $17.69 a share, down 30 cents, on the New York Stock Exchange.

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