Historical Society Photos
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Members of The Employee Representation Plan (ERP) at The Point in 1928. As an important element of its anti-unionism, Bethlehem Steel created the ERP, or company union, to block organizing campaigns. On August 14, 1939, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the ERP represented an Unfair Labor Practice and ordered the “disestablishment” of the program throughout
16. Finally gathering enough support for an election--and with the company threatened with the loss of military contracts-- workers at Sparrows Point got a union election on September 25, 1941. This leaflet was passed out in the days before the vote.