AFL Web Printing

An ongoing and bitter contract dispute between the Teamsters and the owner of a Secaucus (NJ) printing company [AFL Web Printing ] ended up in the streets of New York Tuesday, when about 25 union members demonstrated outside the office of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Teamsters Local 1-L, a New York-based branch of the Amalgamated Lithographers of America union, has for three years sought to organize the workers of AFL Web Printing.

The union said it targeted the SBA because the agency had awarded “at least $100 million in funding” to the Westbury Partners private equity firm (which owns AFL).

Members of GCC Local 1-L planned to hand out leaflets in front of AFL customers The Financial Times’ and Women’s Wear Daily’s Manhattan headquarters, “calling on these customers to express their concern with AFL’s conduct and consider hiring a responsible printing company.”

Commercial printer company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ October 2011 edition.

Commercial printer company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ September 2011 edition.

OSHA has cited AFL Quality, doing business as AFL Web Printing, for one willful, two repeat, 15 serious and eight other-than-serious safety and health violations following a February inspection at AFL's facility here. 
Proposed penalties total $170,000.

VOORHEES, NJ—The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited AFL Quality, doing business as AFL Web Printing, for one willful, two repeat, 15 serious and eight other-than-serious safety and health violations following a February inspection at AFL's facility here. Proposed penalties total $170,000.

AFL was cited for one willful, two repeat, 15 serious and eight other-than-serious safety and health violations following a February inspection at its Voorhees, NJ, facility. The willful violation was for failing to provide proper machine guarding to protect workers.

AFL Web Printing, a Mid-Atlantic leader in offset printing and print services, has promoted Robert Walters to vice president and named Joseph L. Cavone as its vice president of sales and marketing, both effective immediately.

SEACAUCUS, NJ—Employees at A.F.L. Web Printing here voted to unionize by a 16-10 count, according to The Jersey Journal. The employees will join Local 1-L of the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Workers at A.F.L. Web Printing voted this week to unionize following complaints about long work days and an inability to use sick time. The workers voted 16 to 10 over a two-day period this week to join Local 1-L of the Graphic Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Former employee Joe Fix said workers were subject to 12-hour days with no lunch break and said the company wanted two weeks notice for sick days. Other workers complained they were given no vacation time.