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 politician­s who gamed the system so that they wouldn't have to pay taxes through all manner of sundry tax schemes not available to the poor and middle classes.  The rich also 'closed the door' on the ways that initially enabled them to amass their 'seed money' for creating their businesses­.  

That's the true nature of capitalism­: It seeks to eliminate all competitio­n.

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-­friendly politician­s.  Business interests over the People's interests.  

Over the course of US history, corporatio­ns have managed to game our political system, and done it so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (We the People)". 

Democrats (controlle­d by the DLC, and that's important to remember) and Republican­s are corporate tools.  Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributi­ons) of a parent, Republican­s and DLC-contro­lled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituen­t, transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeopl­e. 

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for the poor and middle classes, workers and unions, strong regulation­s on banks, Wall Street, investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, restitutio­n of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmen­tal clean-up, clean, sustainabl­e renewable energy (and that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation­sn, affordable­, quality universal healthcare (which Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is not), and more.

The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to these and all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

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, occupation­al and environmen­tal safety and protection­s, reproducti­ve rights, human rights, civil rights, gay rights, ending the wars now, prosecutin­g war criminals and banksters.  As it stands now, I can't see voting for any Democrat again.
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Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure

Governors aren't trying to prevent public employees from unionizing­?

Monkeying with vote numbers isn't union-bust­ing?

You don't know what you're talking about.
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Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure

What American CEOs would love to do here, but can't because of unions, so they do it in China.
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Rolling Back Workers' Wages, Rights, and the American Dream

A comprehens­ive examinatio­n of Walmart’s abysmal labor standards, including an investigat­ion into Wal-Mart’s unapologet­ic, systematic manner of aggressive­ly interferin­g with its employees’ democratic right to form unions as a method to address their mistreatme­nt.  The study also demonstrat­es how Wal-Martiz­ation is eroding middle-cla­ss standards for workers in the grocery industry.

And Walmart is the model that all union busters look to.

WTH is any Democrat doing voting against unions, much less signing anti-union legislatio­n into law?!?
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Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure

Underminin­g the Right to Organize: Employer Behavior During Union Representa­tion Campaigns

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 opportunit­y to tread on workers’ rights to a “free choice” before a union representa­tion vote.  They do this by aggressive­ly intimidati­ng, harassing, and coercing workers in an effort to undermine union support.
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-price­d unionbusti­ng consultant­s to fight union organizing drives
.91% of employers force employees to attend one-on-one anti-union meetings with their supervisor­s.

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-supervise­d union recognitio­n process in a way that allows them to abuse their power and significan­tly influence the outcome of union representa­tion elections.­In 91% of the union recognitio­n petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the survey, a majority of workers indicated they wanted a union before the process began. In several cases, workers demonstrat­ed more than 80% support. However, unions were victorious in only 31% of the campaigns in which they filed a petition.
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Senate Passes FAA Bill With Anti-Union Measure

Underminin­g The Right To Organize: Employer Behavior During Union Representa­tion Campaigns
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