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Omaha Steve

(99,661 posts) Sun Jan 4, 2015, 09:43 PM Jan 2015

The Employee Rights Act would reduce union exploitation of workers

Keep in mind this is written by an anti-union thug. X post in GD & Socialist-Progressive

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/4/richard-berman-employee-rights-act-in-congress-can/

By Richard Berman - - Sunday, January 4, 2015
While the resolution of Election Day was clear, the New Year’s resolutions of elected legislators are anything but. That’s not to say Americans haven’t been united in what they’re after — poll after poll shows an electorate desperate for real economic improvement. It’s just that members of Congress are divided on how to get there.

This year, there’s an easy place to start: improving employee rights.

Not all legislators agree on the best way to achieve this. One group, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and her acolytes, has called for a renewed focus on unionization. Yet economic evidence suggests that on average, unions are bad long-term bargains for employees. Economists find that unions tend to make businesses less competitive and less profitable, as their demands reduce the ability to hire, expand and invest.

Such findings haven’t stopped the activist National Labor Relations Board, which has made a series of dramatic changes to labor law in an attempt to stem the historic drop in private-sector unionization.

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The Employee Rights Act would reduce union exploitation of workers (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2015 OP

Of course, a point of propaganda has to be that unions are "anti-employee". delrem Jan 2015 #1

delrem

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1. Of course, a point of propaganda has to be that unions are "anti-employee".

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 05:21 AM

Jan 2015

But come on, people!

First and most important of all, the existence of unions has little if anything to do with Elizabeth Warren, or any individual politician.

Unions were fought for with the blood, sweat and tears of generations of workers and that history can never be unwritten.
For all the evil politics that attaches to unions, as attaches to *every* democratic endeavour just because of the diverse nature of the general population, the one enduring *point* of unions, the reason for their existence, is to empower employees of huge corporate and gov't conglomerates.

As Cockburn sings, "and they call it democracy"

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