Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DOUG H who wrote (223859)	1/31/2002 12:40:13 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The wsj is reporting today that the union goons are making gains by forbidding votes on unionization and using strongarm tactics to bully workers and companies: ...Their strategy: Use publicity, picketing, friendly local politicians, boycotts, even strikes, to pressure employers to accept a union. But avoid secret-ballot elections conducted under National Labor Relations Board rules, which have been a mainstay of U.S. labor law since 1939. Labor and management differ sharply on whether this is fair. The employer-backed Labor Policy Association circulates a 92-page booklet arguing that workers are losing their right to choose. But there's no dispute that something important is happening. "We have concluded that the system is simply broken and won't be fixed until there's a realization in Congress that workers don't have the right to organize under the present system," says HERE President John Wilhelm. About 80% of the workers HERE organized last year never cast a ballot, instead persuading employers to accept workers' written declarations that they want a union. Unions say elections give employers too much time and leeway to lean on workers. Employers say the ballots show many workers don't want a union, even if they signed cards saying otherwise. Unions win about half the 3,000 or so elections held annually. In a sign that HERE and SEIU may be breathing some life into the labor movement, the union created by the amalgamation of apparel and textile unions -- the Union of Needletrade, Industrial and Textile Employees, or Unite -- is adopting similar tactics with similar success.... online.wsj.com