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Next target? They been in the cross hairs since the passage of Taft-Hartley in 1947! In fact other than when the Teamsters endorsed Republicans the more apt question should be, when have private sector unions not been a target of the Republicans?
Absolutely. One step at a time...Its coming for all. Can't wait for EVERYONE to be working 12-14 hours a day, 6 days a week. Then, people will start complaining again. Good ole American thinking. Short lived.
Absolutely. One step at a time...Its coming for all. Can't wait for EVERYONE to be working 12-14 hours a day, 6 days a week. Then, people will start complaining again. Good ole American thinking. Short lived.
Let's get rid of child labor laws!!! That should be Scott Walkers campaign slogan for his next run.
In the years leading up to passage of The Wagner Act, the country saw general strikes in numerous cities...of particular note were the strikes in Minneapolis, Toledo, and San Francisco. There were also over 800 sit down strikes across the country between 1931 and 1935. Even The Wagner Act itself (1935) was little more than an effort to put constraints on union workers, and to sap the militancy from organized labor actions. Unions have been systematically stripped of any real authority for decades. Between the corporately-controlled politicians and the corrupt trade union leadership, organized workforces in the US have dropped precipitously, both in numbers and in effectiveness. The Teabag movement seems to feel empowered to strike the fatal blow.
There is a bill that is going to be introduced that will curtain the rights of private sector unions to collect dues and require membership in certain jobs--
if that is not attempting to disenfranchise the rights of unions I don't know what is
Logically if you can GET a job in a plant or company AND have all the rights and benefits of belonging to a union without having to join a union--why would you??? Most people would be content to slide along on someone else's coattails and forgo paying dues and also being disciplined by your shop steward...
so yeah
they will do anything and everything they can to cut the legs out from under unions
Absolutely. One step at a time...Its coming for all. Can't wait for EVERYONE to be working 12-14 hours a day, 6 days a week. Then, people will start complaining again. Good ole American thinking. Short lived.
How do you account for people working their normal 40 for 5 days in non union states ?
You seem to think everyone is union but unions have been shrinking for decades now. The biggest unions in the US are public sector unions.
Government unions. Is that an oxymoron or what..a union to protect the workers from the government ??
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