Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure
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The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat and labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician
That's the true nature of capitalism
Then, the rich took those profits and further gamed the system, by rigging the electoral process, enabling them to stack the government elected with corporate-
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for the poor and middle classes, workers and unions, strong regulation
The DLC-contro
I am an old, OLD liberal Democrat. An FDR Democrat. I've never voted for a Republican in my many years of voting nor will I. I will NEVER vote for any candidate who isn't talking about economic justice and actively working for it, making it his first priority in all that he does, whether it's in collective bargaining rights, occupation
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Governors aren't trying to prevent public employees from unionizing
Monkeying with vote numbers isn't union-bust
You don't know what you're talking about.
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Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure
Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure
Rolling Back Workers' Wages, Rights, and the American Dream
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And Walmart is the model that all union busters look to.
WTH is any Democrat doing voting against unions, much less signing anti-union legislatio
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Underminin
Why aren’t more workers forming unions? New data on employer anti-union behavior
Employer Anti-Union Behavior Is Widespread
Findings from a new report reveal that most employers take full advantage of the opportunit
Among employers faced with organizing campaigns:
30% of employers fire pro-union workers.
49% of employers threaten to close a worksite when workers try to form a union, but only 2% actually do.
51% of employers coerce workers into opposing unions with bribery or favoritism
82% of employers hire high-price
.91% of employers force employees to attend one-on-one anti-union meetings with their supervisor
Employer Anti-Union Behavior Impedes Union Organizing
The report confirms that union membership in the United States is not declining because workers no longer want, need, or attempt to form unions. Instead, the falling membership rate is related to employers’ systematic use of legal and illegal tactics to stymie union organizing
Aided by a weak labor law system that fails to protect workers’ rights, employers manipulate the government
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Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure
Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure
“One year from now, we have the chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race - and I've won. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am President, they won't find a job in my White House. Because real change isn't another four years of defending lobbyists who don't represent real Americans - it's standing with working Americans who have seen their jobs disappear and their wages decline and their hope for the future slip further and further away. That's the change we can offer in 2008.
When I am President, I will end the tax giveaways to companies that ship our jobs overseas, and I will put the money in the pockets of working Americans, and seniors, and homeowners who deserve a break. I won't wait ten years to raise the minimum wage - I'll raise it to keep pace every single year. And if American workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States."
-Candidate Obama, November 3, 2007 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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George Santayana said in Reason in Common Sense, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Looking back 100 years, there were no unions, no EPA, no OSHA. The robber barons were in charge. You worked for a company who paid you in scrip that you used to purchase your personal needs from the company store, which were seriously overpriced, you went deeply into debt with no way to come out from under, unless, of course, you had something the company boss wanted.
Before organized labor, there was no middle class. It took FDR to finally stand for labor and make it a priority. Funny thing is, what few people don't realize is, FDR was alive when both Russia and China fell to Communism. He saw what happened when people were starving. I know he ran charities, but I believe more that he supported labor to protect himself from a major labor revolt. We were in the middle of the Great Depression, with little way out of it. People were starving. Unemployme nt was about what it is now. Thanks to the labor laws, we had the greatest prosperity we have known as a nation. This ran from the end of World War II through the 1960's. Then there was the initial underminin g of unions here and there. Word had to get out and be repeated very often to make people believe it (and my dad always said, believe none of what you hear, little more of what you read, and only half of what you see) that unions were BAD AND EVIL.
Except that union insurance paid for my godfather's wife's cancer treatment and home care. When his son was in a car accident, it paid for his full treatment, including almost two weeks in the hospital. He worked hard, but he was paid decently and could give his family a nice home. I forgot that. I forgot that people got decent wages because of unions, and now the only way for the robber barons to get back in power was to under-cut the unions one step at a time. Yes, there is corruption in some unions. But you can say that about anything -- corporatio n, politics, churches. Where there are human beings, there is the potential for corruption . There is also the potential for great good.
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It's official: Democrats have joined Republican
Unclear to millions of unorganized workers is whether or not they should care. Thanks to years of right wing propaganda -- and labor union inertia -- millions of Americans are "union skeptics," unsure as to the nature of the union animal. These fence-stra ddlers have no direct experience with organized labor, but they will be absolutely crucial participan ts in this war of corporate power versus working people.
Why is a war against labor unions a war against working people at large? At bottom, unions represent the human right to work with respect, to receive decent wages and benefits, and to organize with your co-workers to ensure this right is enforced.
As millions of working people in America understand, a non-union work site typically means living with poor wages, poor or nonexisten t benefits, and zero job security. The boss can fire you for glancing at him with a less than kind look, or because you complained about a workplace safety issue, etc. Unions empower workers to perform their jobs with dignity, without fear of the boss.
Unions have made life better for all working Americans by helping to pass laws ending child labor, establishing the eight-hour day, protecting workers' safety and health and helping create Social Security, unemployme nt insurance and the minimum wage.
The right wing cannot answer the above arguments, so they avoid them, focusing instead on the greedy "union boss." Unfortunately, partial truths aid this right wing attack on unions; some labor leaders in the US today act as self-servi ng rulers over their union kingdom, collecting large salaries via dues money while ignoring the demands of their members and the needs of unorganize d working people.
This insular thinking of some union leaders has helped distance the labor movement from the rest of the working class, at the expense of both. The rightwing is now exploiting this separation, painting labor unions as "ruining America" while corporatio ns claim they cannot afford the high wages of union workers, and state and federal government s blame union workers for their budget problems.
Unions have become the rightwing's ultimate scapegoat for the recession in their attempts to funnel the rage that many working people feel against labor unions. The rightwing maniacally works to shift attention away from those who caused the recession and even benefited from it -- the banks and corporatio ns -- to those who suffer from it -- workers, immigrants , and the poor. It is the classic syndrome of blaming the victim.
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Unions Help Bring Workers Into the Middle Class
The table below lists occupation
For example, nonunion machinist earned an average of $17.84 per hour in 2009. At this hourly wage, a full-time, year round nonunion machinist would earn $6,993 less than 200 percent of the poverty line for a family of four. Meanwhile, union machinists earned an average hourly wage of $24.29 – 36.2 percent more than the average wage for nonunion machinists
AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS OF SELECTED OCCUPATION
WTF is any Democrat doing voting against unions, much less signing anti-union legislatio
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WTH is any Democrat doing voting against unions, much less signing anti-union legislatio
How Unions Help Bring Low-Wage Workers Out of Poverty
With a voice on the job through a union, workers in low-wage occupation
AVERAGE HOURLY EARNINGS OF UNION AND NONUNION WORKERS IN SELECTED OCCUPATION
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Turnover
Unions reduce turnover. About one-fifth of the union productivi
Solvency
Academic research refutes the claim that unions are detrimenta
Workplace Health and Safety
According to an American Rights at Work summary of a study by John E. Baugher and J. Timmons Roberts:
Only one factor effectively moves workers who are in subordinat e positions to actively cope with hazards: membership in an independen t labor union. These findings suggest that union growth could indirectly reduce job stress by giving workers the voice to cope effectivel y with job hazards.
Economic Developmen
Unions play a positive role in economic developmen
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Economic Growth
Between 1945 and 1973, when a high percentage of workers were in unions, wages kept pace with rising productivi
Productivi
According to a recent survey of 73 independen
Some scholars have found an even larger positive relationsh
Professors Michael Ash and Jean Ann Seago say heart attack recovery rates are higher in hospitals where nurses are in unions than in hospitals without unions. According to Professor Paul Clark, nurses, through their unions, improve patient care by negotiatin
Training
Several studies in have found a positive link between unionizati
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Unions Are Good for Business, Productivi
Unions create a more stable, productive workforce—
The following benefits of unions and unionizati
Strong Middle Class Linked to Strong Unions
Productivi
Product or service delivery and quality
Training
Turnover
Solvency of the firm
Workplace health and safety
Economic developmen
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Workers' Wages Are Lower in States Where Workers Have Fewer Union Rights
In states that have laws restrictin
"Right to work" for less states are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississipp
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Union Workers Have Better Health Care and Pensions
Unions enable working people to come together and, through a contract, bargain for health coverage and pensions, paid sick leave and other benefits. Union workers are more likely than their nonunion counterpar
87 percent of workers in unions participat
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Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure
WTF are Democrats 'compromis
Collective Bargaining Raises Wages—Espe
Unions are about respect. Training. Community. Collaborat
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WTF are Democrats 'compromisi
Union members earn better wages and benefits than workers who aren’t union members. On average, union workers’ wages are 30 percent higher than their nonunion counterpar
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