Posted on Jun 20, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
NAM also has this quote from John Edwards, who says he isn’t worried about unions intimidating employees during anti-democratic card check organizing campaigns. Instead, he says: “The intimidation I fear is from person who pays their check.” Makes sense: doing away with the privacy of the voting booth will definitely cut down on intimidation, right?
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Carter Wood over at NAM’s blog has a nice round-up to start your day off.
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After returning from the ridiculously hot day that hosted Big Labor’s big rally to end workplace democracy, I neglected to mention a funny moment. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Labor) was none too happy with our full-page ad in yesteday’s New York Times, USA Today, and Roll Call. It simply used a union boss’s own words describing […]
Posted on Jun 19, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
As we’ve noted, union bosses are lobbying and throwing cash at politicians in hopes of securing passage of the fantastically misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act.” The AP has more, with a piece on politicians pandering to union bosses and a sidebar explaining that 6 of the top 10 political donors are unions. The news service […]
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This week labor leaders are trying to get the Senate to vote on the “Employee Free Choice Act.” EFCA, frequent readers will remember, is the bill that would end secret ballot elections for employees deciding whether to join a union and impose a government arbitrator’s contract on employees and employers alike. At the Center for […]
Posted on by J. Justin Wilson
Today, labor attorney Dmitri Iglitzen has a piece on TomPain(e).com suggesting that joining a union should be as easy as donating an organ. Let’s take his analogy a little further. Perhaps doctors should be able to take our organs whenever they want, just like labor bosses who deduct union dues without the consent of their […]
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The AFL-CIO played an exceptional and praiseworthy role in the fight against Soviet tyranny, which truly oppressed labor rights, most notably in the union’s active and often covert support of Poland’s Solidarity movement. How sad that a once positive force for voting rights and freedom of association in Poland has abandoned those principles at home. […]
Posted on Jun 18, 2007 by J. Justin Wilson
Last week, AFL-CIO blogger Tula Connell penned a screed on TomPaine.com, suggesting that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) told Capitol Hill staffers that our study on illegal firings during organizing campaigns could not be substantiated. She wrote: Both Republican and Democratic Senate staff requested clarification on the group’s claims from the NLRB. Staff at […]
