Comments on: GOP Corporate Thugs Project Their Own Behavior onto Unions

By: BooRadley

BooRadley — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:35:58 +0000

Seconded.

By: tk1200

tk1200 — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:28:42 +0000

I belonged to a JayCees organization in a bedroom community some years ago. One of the guys who joined a few years later was from upstate New York and worked for a company in Boston. I don’t recall what his company did, but his job title and his actual responsibilities were two different things. He conducted surveillance on his co-workers, and I remember him telling me that in addition to monitoring workplace computers they had the place all miked up so that he could listen in on virtually any conversation between workers. Still what struck me most was his outraged attitude towards organized labor. He was dropping f-bombs and would go all red in the face as he went on and on about the need to detect and root out these fucking bastards. i talked to him at the local coffee shop about four times, and it was the same shit each time. So I had to go find a different coffee shop.

These anti-labor assholes are obsessive and they are paranoid and they reflect the attitude of the vast majority of corporate managers and stockholders in America. There is no honest balance between labor and management at present, and that;s the way managers would like it to remain. The Employee Free Choice Act is not a panacea, but it would restore some balance to a process that has been repeatedly bent out of shape to meet the desires of management and stockholders at the expense of labor.

By: phastphil

phastphil — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:07:12 +0000

Republicans are guilty of “Psychological Projection” on just about every issue. Faux outrage means were the ones who are really guilty of this.

By: nonplussed

nonplussed — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:35:50 +0000

Anyone whose favorite politicians are Bobby Jindal, Ken Blackwell and Eric Cantor can’t be expected to be too terribly smart….

By: TheLurkingMod

TheLurkingMod — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:12:54 +0000

Spencer Ackerman, upstairs!
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By: runfastandwin

runfastandwin — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:05:40 +0000

I am so sick of “cloture.” I don’t even know what that means, it’s a weasel word designed to get Senators out of their responsibilities.

MAKE THEM ACTUALLY DIAPER UP AND FILIBUSTER FOR GOD’S SAKE.

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:44:25 +0000

Read.The.EFCA. For Pete’s sake, read it and then come back and try this argument.
Read it before you step in it again.

By: Selkirk

Selkirk — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:39:01 +0000

Intimidation coming from either side is good reason to reject the EFCA. Why throw away the federal oversight of the certification process? Seems like you’re all too pleased to grant a monopoly to the unions to engage in “thuggery” and have no one there to call them out for it.

By: SomeGuy

SomeGuy — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:54:38 +0000

You are right about that. Based on the poor press coverage, most people think the important part about the card check is that it is not secret, when the really important thing is that it avoids the mandatory brainwashing/terror campaign leading up to an election. A mail in card check would be much better than a mail in election, because it would eliminate the forced reeducation camps leading up to an election, and at the same time cut the heart out of the #1 GOP attack against employee free choice.

By: TheLurkingMod

TheLurkingMod — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:49:35 +0000

Marcy is upstairs!
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