Employers are able to intimidate workers with impunity and violate the law during union organizing drives, with little penalty from the Bush NLRB. That’s why America needs the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).

You might be interested in this post from the AFL-CIO’s blog which includes an analysis by Dean Baker of Center for Economic and Policy Research. Baker talks about the impact EFCA would have on changing our economy to one based on wage growth rather than bubble growth.

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In 2007, union density rose for the first time in decades.

the corporate world has bee quite successful demonizing the union and collective bargaining, they have the media as their tool and champion and they have actually gotten people to believe unions are a bad thing, people vote against themeselves and their children thanx to this marketing scheme from corporatism’s

we can and need to counter their marketing blitz and it is much easier then most believe;

we have to direct the discussion!

a business has to bargain for every thing it needs, it bargains for steel, it bargains for land, it bargains for plastic

the buyer doesn’t set the price, the provider sets the price, they buyer then bargains to get a better deal

all a union does is provide the laborer with the venue that permits them to bargain for the TRUE value of their product

a business does not base their prices on what a product costs, they base their prices on what the consumer will pay, higher wages does NOT translate into higher prices, higher wages translates into silver instead of golden parachutes for the ceo’s

for some reason, businesses have been able to set the price on what they pay labor, this is different from everything else they have to purchase and that’s the problem

that’s the way the union debate must be discussed, the fact that the buyer wants to set the price instead of the provider

Prof. Freeman will be on in a bit I hope. Had hoped he’d make it to the Lake for the discussion.