Re: OT: Why welfare doesn't work!

On Sep 8, 4:50�pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-Web-
Site.com> wrote:

Yep. �Unions are a leftist thing. �Our Democrat Congressman Moron
Mitchell is amongst a group of leftist SOB's that want to do away with
the SECRET BALLOT in union elections!




Apparently, the system for forming unions is broken - which I guess
explains the sign-up cards, which some interpret (prehaps correctly?)
as a loss of secret ballot status.
But if the facts below are correct, then something is clearly
wrong...
Not sure how I would fix it.?

From the AFLCIO website:

Cornell University scholar Kate Bronfenbrenner studied hundreds of
organizing campaigns and found that:

Ninety-two percent of private-sector employers, when faced with
employees who want to join together in a union, force employees to
attend closed-door meetings to hear anti-union propaganda;

80 percent require supervisors to attend training sessions on
attacking unions; and 78 percent require that supervisors deliver anti-
union messages to workers they oversee.

Seventy-five percent hire outside consultants to run anti-union
campaigns, often based on mass psychology and distorting the law.

Half of employers threaten to shut down partially or totally if
employees join together in a union.
In 25 percent of organizing campaigns, private-sector employers
illegally fire workers because they want to form a union.

Even after workers successfully form a union, in one-third of the
instances, employers do not negotiate a contract.

[end]

Then again, I have this flashback of a bunch of GM & Ford employees
all sitting a dark little room with their secret ballots in-hand, none
of whom really have a viable future because they're all engaged in
making over-priced SUV's that Americans neither want nor can afford to
drive, and whose employers are gutting the respective company 100-year
success stories with risky off-balance *** derivitive financings
(not to mention investment in sub-prime in the case of GMAC / Ditech),
and other shady financial misgivings..... I wonder who will be left
to count the ballots?

Some illegal, undocumented immigrant worker?

-mpm
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