Union Campaign Tactics

Because Cintas will not agree to a "Card Check/Neutrality" method of determining unionization — a method that strips employees of their right to vote their conscience — the unions began a smear campaign against the company in an attempt to disrupt our business relationships and tarnish our good reputation.

Examples of these tactics included:

• Picketing, handing out leaflets
• Contacting our employees at home by unlawfully obtaining addresses through license plate records (Cintas employees won a lawsuit regarding this matter)
• Filing lawsuits and unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board, almost all of which were dismissed or withdrawn as not having any merit.
• Pressuring political leaders, religious groups and suppliers to support their cause through misleading letters, visits, rallies and the spread of misinformation
• Distributing misleading and highly sensationalized letters to Cintas customers in an attempt to disrupt our outstanding business relationships
• Attempting to block the company’s efforts to build new plants that create many new jobs
• Highly exaggerating and reporting outright falsehoods to the public

In addition, the unions have developed an extremely negative Web site that exaggerates and misrepresents a wide variety of issues concerning our company. Most disturbing is their determination to help manufacture quotes from a small number of current and former Cintas employees and present them to the public as if they were representative of all of our more than 34,000 employees.