Comments on: Bushworld: Labor Board Threatens Rights Of Millions Of Workers

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:38:33 +0000

Here goes the goofy, worthless Bush administration again….ready to put a screwing to working people AGAIN!! Now, someone needs to file a lawsuit against Bush for “Impersonating a President”!

By the way, look for so-called Labor Secretary “Chow” to come out of hibernation to get the job done for Bush! Someone also needs to file a lawsuit against her for “Impersonating a Secretary of Labor”!

They gotta go….VOTE DEMOCRATIC!!

By: 14justice

14justice — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:20:23 +0000

Worst
Republican
Official
Nincompoop
Grotesque

By: getplaning

getplaning — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:55:00 +0000

America needs a Labor Party. That would be the most likely third party to have a chance at gaining support. Most European countries have at least four parties, my home country (Spain) has five with influence, and a total of twelve represented in it’s parliament.

By: getplaning

getplaning — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:50:12 +0000

Well, since all those nurses are now considered supervisors, they all get a raise to a supervisor’s salary, right? Problem solved! Free markets work both ways.

By: Dilireus

Dilireus — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:15:45 +0000

A lot of the people Bush is screwing voted for him and will vote for the next Republican clown who comes along because he claims to have Jesus on his side or he will help save us all from the evil “turrists”. I agree with Roy @ 79…any union worker who voted for Bush or a Republican congressman deserves this. They also helped screw over their fellow workers (not to mention anyone else who isn’t counted among the elite or the “saved”).

By: Roy Skaggs, III

Roy Skaggs, III — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:15:49 +0000

Any working American, man or woman, who voted for Bush, deserves this. But a helluva lot of others will be hurt. Too many people have forgotten the history of the labor movement in this country. And too many dumbbells who get to wear a tie to work fancy themselves Donald Trump, when they’re really just another paper and pencil pushing company suck. They’re one rung on the ladder above a scab.

By: Sierra Volk

Sierra Volk — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:46:59 +0000

IF YOU ARE IN D.C. –

Come out and join us in protesting this at the NLRB tomorrow, 7/13! We’re grouping up at Franklin Square at 11:30, then moving over to the NLRB site:

Thursday, 7/13: Push Back! Don’t Let Them Roll Back Worker’s
Rights!
12P, NLRB HQ, 14th & L
Support UMWA President Cecil Roberts, Metro Council President
Jos Williams, AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff and
others as they commit civil disobedience to protest the NLRB’s
move to roll back your freedom to join or form a union.
streetheat@dclabor.org

500 EXPECTED AT DC LABOR BOARD CD ACTION THURSDAY: In a week of
actions starting today, thousands of nurses, construction
workers, miners and other workers will march to regional Labor
Board offices and worksites to demand that they not be denied
their worker rights and union protections. In Washington, more
than 500 are expected to converge on NLRB headquarters in
downtown DC at noon on Thursday, when civil disobedience will be
committed by UMWA President Cecil Roberts, Metro Washington
Council President Jos Williams, AFL-CIO Organizing Director
Stewart Acuff, DCNA Nurse Sandra Falwell, Jobs with Justice
Executive Director Fred Azcarate, Rev. Ron Stief (Director of
the DC Office of United Church of Christ Justice and Witness
Ministries) and UMWA Organizing Director James Gibbs.

By: T-

T- — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:59:17 +0000

Neurophius-
Angry letters are called for here.

But the specific use of rape gurney allows them to dismiss the rest of your letter without having to soak in your anger.

Everyone agrees that it is an extremely derisive term and I’d bet its justification to dismiss your effort.

Considering your audience, I think its counterproductive.

By: llamajockey

llamajockey — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:30:14 +0000

Just think of all those companies that are using the lastest management fad/disaster, Rank and Yank evaluations. Under this insane and inhuman systems not only are supervisors ranking employees, but employees are ranking co-workers or even their front line supervisors. Then each year the company often fires the bottom 10% even if the employee works like a dog and the company is turning a profit. Somebody has to take the fall in this game of musical chairs. In the notorious case of Enron it was the bottom 15%. Who the hell needs to watch Survivor when literally lots of folks are living on a daily basis.

Unions have been just about the only ones complaining about Rank and Yank employee appraisal systems. The assholes management consultant fuckers like McKinsey and Company, employer of Chelsea Clinton no less, who tout the soul crushing and teamwork destroying Rank and Yank system openly tell big corporations that they are a great way to undermine age, sex, race and disablity anti-discrimination enforcement.

Now if the NLRB rules if favor of this rule change, employers will simply greatly expand the ranks of those they consider a supervisor. Then Rank and Yank will become the defacto management standard and nobody in white collar or professional employment will have access to unionization.

By: Tortoise

Tortoise — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:50:59 +0000

But Piett,

Here they can’t play rugby. It’s a tough call.