thinkprogress.org — Roll Call reports today, ?Deep-pocketed corporate lobbying groups have joined together to defeat? the Employee Free Choice Act. Speaking before a business lobby group this morning, Vice President Cheney announced that Bush will veto the EFCA legislation.
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lightinggodFeb 16, 2007
yeah I've noticed that no one holds events in NYC, Chicago, or San Francisco these days.
lightinggodFeb 16, 2007
Everyone knows how poorly the Germans, and Japanese compensate their employees. The reason the US auto industry is in such poor shape is that they grew complacent making giant vehicles when fuel prices were low, and weren't prepared for the sales fall off when fuel prices rose.
Closed AccountFeb 16, 2007
"Our administration rejects any attempt to short-circuit the rights of workers. We will defend their right to vote yes or no by secret ballot, and their right to fair bargaining."The left often tries to circumvent the voting process when the results are not to their liking. This is just another example.
teadrinkerFeb 16, 2007
@bigdavediode:Unionizing will not do anything to stop outsourcing. If anything it will encourage it. By the way, if the business simply sets up a factory in a different country that is not called outsourcing, and thus that skews the numbers. If you consider every single person that should have been employed to produce all the "made in china" junk as outsourced, manufacturing would probably have more people outsourced than all people who work in IT in the US.
palmettoFeb 16, 2007
Government should get out of the business of telling people and businesses what to do.If people want to unionize, fine. If companies want to forbid unions, that is their right. Let the two sortit out. Employee/Employer relationships are a two way street. If each gets what it wants, everyone is happy. If not each can search elsewhere for what it wants.
chriswebpubFeb 19, 2007
Unions exist not to serve workers, but to serve unions. Sometimes those two things coincide, other times they do not. Union leadership's only goal is to perpetuate their own bureaucracy and their own employment as union officials. My father-in-law is an autoworker at a non-union plant and he has voted against unionizing multiple times. He realizes the truth of the situation and how with a union you'll just end up paying $20 a month in dues for $.05 more per hour. Of course the labor lobby has done a good job with PR and has donated millions and millions to political campaigns to make sure the public thinks they are benign. You think corporations are the only ones who lobby and donate to politicians? Obviously workers should be treated fairly, but unions more often than not put the union ahead of the workers. Look at the UAW, they're a billion dollar bureaucracy. So the labor lobby has greased the palms of Dem congressmen to pass a law making it easier for unions to form and to intimidate workers who vote against the unions. You realize many unions are just 1 step removed (sometimes not even 1 step, see Hoffa) from organized crime? If a worker votes against unionizing do you know what kind of hazing, threats, and violence they can go through? If you're okay with that, by all means, support this bill.