Siding With Big Business, Cheney Announces Bush Will Veto Workers’ Rights Bill

Today, the House Education and Labor Committee begins markup on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which has strong bipartisan backing in Congress. The EFCA would make it easier for workers to form a union. Under the current law, “even when a majority of workers ask for union representation, their employers can force them to undergo an election process” administered by the Bush administration’s “anti-worker” National Labor Relations Board.

Roll Call reports today, “Deep-pocketed corporate lobbying groups have joined together to defeat” the EFCA. Speaking before a business lobby group this morning, Vice President Cheney announced that Bush will veto the EFCA legislation.

The current union organization system is tilted against America’s workers. Each year, over 20,000 U.S. workers are illegally fired, demoted, laid off, suspended without pay, or denied work by their employers as a result of union activity. Under the Bush administration, American workers have seen union levels — and their wages — steadily drop:


http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/cheney-bush-labor/

let's see what this Congress is really made of......

It is time the American people are considered.

No words just this................








OH MEOW
Happy Valentines Day Catwoman!!!!!!

They never resist an action which will erode worker's rights, and widen the gap between rich and poor in this country. It was St. Ronnie who started all of this, and Bush is only too glad to continue the fight. Apparently, they won't be happy until we are groveling at their feet, grateful for any job that will keep us from actually starving to death. The sick thing is that they are already so rich that they have enough money to do anything, or have anything they want. They are already enormously wealthy, it's purely greed that drives them.