Milwaukee-area Krause Funeral Home employees leave Teamsters union

(The Center Square) – Krause Funeral Home and Cremation Services workers in the Milwaukee area are no longer represented by a union after an employee-backed petition was filed earlier this year, the company withdrew recognition of the union and the Teamsters Local 344 union dropped a complaint in the case.

Krause employee Noah Watry and fellow workers filed a decertification petition in October and National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys filed a motion to intervene in a case in front of the National Labor Relations Board.

The petition asked the NLRB to hold a vote to remove the union from the three Milwaukee-based Krause locations. Those represented included funeral directors, embalmers and apprentices at the locations in Milwaukee, Brookfield and New Berlin.

The union then accused Krause and the NLRB from withdrawing recognition illicitly and filed unfair labor practice charges.

“This case illustrates clearly the lengths that union officials will go in order to hold on to power...