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At a campaign rally that Romney held in Ohio, with a backdrop of miners, the miners were there because they were forced to be there, unpaid. And believe it or not, it seems that forcing workers to attend campaign rallys unpaid "could be" illegal
This should be a criminal violation of both labor laws and election laws and we shouldn't have to ask if it is
The miners have a union. I'm sure the union would act on anything "forced" although if they were getting paid while attending no one may balk at all.
I don't care if they have a union. That shouldn't make any difference. Forcing employees to attend campaign events like that should be a criminal violation of both labor and election laws.
I don't care if they have a union. That shouldn't make any difference. Forcing employees to attend campaign events like that should be a criminal violation of both labor and election laws.
Allegedly it was mandatory. But nowhere does it say that Romney made anything mandatory or had any input on the mine owner's direction setting to his employees. I find it difficult to believe that a Union shop would comply with anything that didnt result in getting paid.
Allegedly it was mandatory. But nowhere does it say that Romney made anything mandatory or had any input on the mine owner's direction setting to his employees. I find it difficult to believe that a Union shop would comply with anything that didnt result in getting paid.
I never said Romney had anything to do with it. In fact normally I would just assume the candidate didn't know but after his remark about the 47% I'm not so sure
At a campaign rally that Romney held in Ohio, with a backdrop of miners, the miners were there because they were forced to be there, unpaid. And believe it or not, it seems that forcing workers to attend campaign rallys unpaid "could be" illegal
This should be a criminal violation of both labor laws and election laws and we shouldn't have to ask if it is
Even funnier - Rob Moore, CFO of Murray Energy Company, which owns the mine, said, "Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."
Mandatory, but no one forced to attend. I wonder if Rob knows what the word "mandatory" means. Or perhaps he meant that no one was physically bound, gagged and propped up.
The president of our company used to have republicans running for local office at our company all the time to come and speak. We were paid for attending and there was certainly no pressure applied. We were free to attend or not.
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