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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP, Chamber Of Commerce, And Business Looking To Make Striking Illegal For Even Nonunion Workers.
Based on the rumbling and Mike Papantonio's recent Ring Of Fire report the powers that be want legislation that would make illegal for these nonunion workers to strike. It will never end. Business is determined to make sure workers have no rights.
In the future you can look for a time when the GOP pushes authorities to arrest striking workers even if they are not in a union. That is the way it was in the early 1930's when there were few unions. We forget that a lot of workers back then who struck did not really have unions. Those workers and today's have a lot in common.
I live in Colorado and you can exist Interstate 25 in southern Colorado and find the site of the Ludlow Massacre not that far from the highway. We could turn to those days if the GOP and Chamber of Commerce had its way.
We are now in a period where an employer practically owns you until they can chuck you in the junk heap.
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Nika
(546 posts)This particular proposal pisses me off.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Based on that clip looks like they want to clamp down on any demonstrating. Right now because these strikers are not union they do not fall under any law that presently restricts unions. So what Papantonio revealed was that the Chamber Of Commerce and probably the GOP want to find a way to suppress these movements.
Seem like our country is going to hell in so many ways. What the GOP and Chamber wants to do is dangerous. They probably want the police to treat these workers like the OWS movement and start arresting, macing and assaulting them as well as arresting them.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)...Biden also said that right-wing business interests are trying to dismantle labor unions, which is related to growing income inequality in the United States, according to The Huffington Post.
"This is a concerted, full-throated, well-organized, well-financed, well-thought-out, long-term effort waging a war on labor's house," Biden told The Huffington Post.
Click here for that article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/05/joe-biden-unions_n_4731933.html
He also said that President Barack Obama's administration would fight for collective bargaining before the Supreme Court.
'Look at Harris v. Quinn, the case before the Supreme Court. There’s a hell of a lot at stake. The president and I, through the solicitor general, came in on the side of the unions on the oral arguments and finally had an amicus brief, because we know that collective bargaining is the bedrock of our economy.'
It's clear Obama is trying to push uniniization behind the scenes, and is on top of the latest cases that affect worker rights. But he is a lightning rod for the right to demonize any cause he wants to suceed. If anyone knows about the case Biden is talking about here, please reply below, as this OP is getting much too long.
Click here for that article:
http://freebeacon.com/biden-thanks-uaw-for-helping-start-political-career/
Those latter links are from this website:
http://www.nooga.com/165327/vp-joe-biden-speaks-about-uaw-success-as-unionizing-efforts-move-forward-at-local-vw-plant/
The Washington Free Beacon appears to be a GOP fast response source, but at least they didn't twist the words in informing their crew of online Dittoheads. What they are so horrified about, sounds great to Democrats.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110222233
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)Workers have no rights. No one has rights. Sadly, we have privileges that continually get eroded away.
