The poster is no big deal, and should be hung in every work place. What is a big deal is the fuss that Big Business has made over it. Of course they don't want workers to know their rights. While it's true that a happy workplace makes happy employees, these happy workers still have the right to know just what their workers' rights are.
I have been in a union, (IAM) worked in management supervising union drivers & former Teamsters, worked in NY & FL, two polar opposites when it comes to workers rights & treatment & I can say this without fear of contradiction: Treat your employees fairly & they will be happy to come to work. Treat them like crap, and you've got a union potential. Simple-but some many businesses treat their employees like disposal diapers & then are surprised when they retaliate. Fair treatment=happy employees
God forbid - people might unionize!! Apparently, merveil3979 hasn't lived or worked in a "Right to Work (for less)" state, such as FL or AZ where workers are subjected to any and all schedules, no overtime pay, being fired without warning and for no reason, having to work holidays without holiday pay, and the lowest pay anywhere. ALL this because there is NO worker protection. Thousands of OSHA violations. Don't believe me? I've worked in both states. It's all true. Get educated, merveil3979!
What? There's an agency in our governing system that HASN'T been bought away from serving the interests of the majority of the citizenry?!? That oreo in the White House has gotten the pinheads so flustered they forgot to send a brown-shoed bagman over to the NLRB. This poster is, no doubt, a ploy on the Board's part to remind the corporate scum they've neglected to shoot a load of their "In God We Trust" ooze the Board's way to help lubricate the wheels of industrial labor relations.
So long as this country continues to worship capitalism, which promotes wealth for the few through underpaid labor by the many, unionization of workers is likely the only thing standing against total subjugation of the people by the corporation. Of course, the poster doesn't say a thing about this; it is thoroughly innocuous, but I can see how it could greatly annoy owners and bosses by helping educate workers. Well, they have the same clothes to get glad in that they had to get mad in.
The poster COULD lead to increased unionization: it advertises rights many are not aware of. If someone gave your wife a book on the divorce legal process, you wouldn’t think it was “just a book”.
Employers that create the right conditions may keep unions out by treating employees with respect, involving them in decisions that affect them, and paying them equitable wages even if this means lower profits. Those that do not are bound to push the "fear-the-poster" panic button.
@merveil3979 Your construct relies on a woman not being intelligent enough to purchase the book herself. If she is thinking about divorce or just wants to know the FACTS, then she could pick up the book herself, just like the poster will allow those who may be interested in unionizing to know the facts, as well as those who want to know what it also disallows. If you don't want to read it, skip over it!
@merveil3979 It doesn't 'advertise' rights. It merely states the rights ALREADY earned by the workers now having access to seeing them in writing. This threatens you somehow, just as the mere thought of your wife reading a book about divorce also threatens you (your analogy is a tell). That your wife could read that self-same book in a bookstore or library sails over your head. What it IS about is your not wanting anyone educating either the wife or the worker.
@ElizabethGS 1. Check the meaning of the word "advertise". 2. I do not feel threatened by anything, please read ALL my post, I am all for treating every employee with respect and giving them good working conditions and fair pay. 3. I am not married, you jump to conclusions and do not understand analogies.
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BIG LABOR needs to be destroyed before they can steal even more money from the working class. Thank god Jerry Brown vetoed their latest scam to try and unionize BABY SITTERS here in California. Can you imagine? A Babysitters Union? How? Why?
The whole poster is about your rights to join or form a union. That is what the NLRB does. I wouldn't call it job killing but I would call it a power play by this office. I wonder if a company posted rights of individual workers (non union) next to this poster what the NLRB would do.
@quizerry Those rights are on the poster too. Check it out for yourself. The poster also tells you what a union may not do and that you have the right not to join.
@quizerry Power-play? Why? What is really in it for them? Now a corporation...They being a FOR PROFIT agency, unlike the NLRB...Not seeing the motivation for the NLRB. I wouldn't doubt that right wing assholes (redundant!) think the unions PAY the NLRB, but that is rather unlikely. Too easy to trace.
Loved the melodramatic music playing enhancing my expectations of what this ruling would do to the workplace of American small businesses. Instead, I only see a guy printing out a legal tender for workers' rights only to be hanged on a bulletin board. NLRB should have put a trollface on the guy's face at the end to fine tune this video.
The humorous video shows the absurdity of the slippery slope claims organizations like the National Federation of Independent Business is making about the potential effects of the poster.
The video has a flaw, though - it doesn't mention that the rule introduces no new rights. That info is only in the side text, which many do not read. So it would be very easy for someone viewing ONLY the video to assume that the flyer being posted at the end listed a bunch of new regulations, and that THAT was what was being complained about by business groups at the beginning.
It should be edited to include the info that the poster lists only rights that employees have had all along.
There is only one group of people who are against hanging up this poster: The very same people who are against worker having those rights in the first place!
Exactly. I should have said, "How many MORE companies would cut corners if their employees didn't know they had rights?"
Corporations don't have a conscience. They do whatever they can to make a profit.
Without government regulations, corporations would (further) abuse their employees, pollute our air, land, and water, catch the last fish in the sea...
And for what? So they can squeeze every last nickel and make their bottom line look good.
@quizerry It's not an "advertisement". It's not "selling" a product. It's a notice of legal rights. "It's just a poster" exactly as the video says. Perhaps you think Miranda rights are verbal SPAM too?
@quizerry: It's not an "advertisement". It's not "selling" a product. It's a notice of legal rights. "It's just a poster" exactly as the video says. Perhaps you think Miranda rights are verbal SPAM too?
Information is power. Not only the words on the poster, but also the knowledge about how the employment relationship was HUMANIZED as it evolved from its roots in the master/servant relationship. Employers did not VOLUNTARILY share decision making power with their employees, just as they did NOT VOLUNTARILY want to get rid of child labor, or equal pay, or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Workers have no rights. Only businesses have rights according to the GOP and the Supreme Court
geoharbin 2 months ago
So being informed is bad.
I see.
spongya77 2 months ago 2
The poster is no big deal, and should be hung in every work place. What is a big deal is the fuss that Big Business has made over it. Of course they don't want workers to know their rights. While it's true that a happy workplace makes happy employees, these happy workers still have the right to know just what their workers' rights are.
averyleinova1 2 months ago 10
I have been in a union, (IAM) worked in management supervising union drivers & former Teamsters, worked in NY & FL, two polar opposites when it comes to workers rights & treatment & I can say this without fear of contradiction: Treat your employees fairly & they will be happy to come to work. Treat them like crap, and you've got a union potential. Simple-but some many businesses treat their employees like disposal diapers & then are surprised when they retaliate. Fair treatment=happy employees
larryscaduto 2 months ago 11
@larryscaduto
It's pretty much true that no company ever got a union it didn't deserve.
bobther1 2 months ago
The problem is that it is required.
AllPowerfullSoviet 2 months ago
God forbid - people might unionize!! Apparently, merveil3979 hasn't lived or worked in a "Right to Work (for less)" state, such as FL or AZ where workers are subjected to any and all schedules, no overtime pay, being fired without warning and for no reason, having to work holidays without holiday pay, and the lowest pay anywhere. ALL this because there is NO worker protection. Thousands of OSHA violations. Don't believe me? I've worked in both states. It's all true. Get educated, merveil3979!
fadedrose9 2 months ago 3
What? There's an agency in our governing system that HASN'T been bought away from serving the interests of the majority of the citizenry?!? That oreo in the White House has gotten the pinheads so flustered they forgot to send a brown-shoed bagman over to the NLRB. This poster is, no doubt, a ploy on the Board's part to remind the corporate scum they've neglected to shoot a load of their "In God We Trust" ooze the Board's way to help lubricate the wheels of industrial labor relations.
jncurotto 2 months ago
So long as this country continues to worship capitalism, which promotes wealth for the few through underpaid labor by the many, unionization of workers is likely the only thing standing against total subjugation of the people by the corporation. Of course, the poster doesn't say a thing about this; it is thoroughly innocuous, but I can see how it could greatly annoy owners and bosses by helping educate workers. Well, they have the same clothes to get glad in that they had to get mad in.
wfuller1907 2 months ago
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wfuller1907 2 months ago
The poster COULD lead to increased unionization: it advertises rights many are not aware of. If someone gave your wife a book on the divorce legal process, you wouldn’t think it was “just a book”.
Employers that create the right conditions may keep unions out by treating employees with respect, involving them in decisions that affect them, and paying them equitable wages even if this means lower profits. Those that do not are bound to push the "fear-the-poster" panic button.
merveil3979 3 months ago 2
@merveil3979 Oh, and because someone gave a wife a book on divorce, that means she's going to get a DIVORCE???? PUL-eeze!
fadedrose9 2 months ago 2
@merveil3979 Your construct relies on a woman not being intelligent enough to purchase the book herself. If she is thinking about divorce or just wants to know the FACTS, then she could pick up the book herself, just like the poster will allow those who may be interested in unionizing to know the facts, as well as those who want to know what it also disallows. If you don't want to read it, skip over it!
jhamptonjr 2 months ago
@jhamptonjr Stop the insanity. What makes you assume that she KNOWS the book exist? You miss the point.
merveil3979 2 months ago
@merveil3979 It doesn't 'advertise' rights. It merely states the rights ALREADY earned by the workers now having access to seeing them in writing. This threatens you somehow, just as the mere thought of your wife reading a book about divorce also threatens you (your analogy is a tell). That your wife could read that self-same book in a bookstore or library sails over your head. What it IS about is your not wanting anyone educating either the wife or the worker.
ElizabethGS 2 months ago
@ElizabethGS 1. Check the meaning of the word "advertise". 2. I do not feel threatened by anything, please read ALL my post, I am all for treating every employee with respect and giving them good working conditions and fair pay. 3. I am not married, you jump to conclusions and do not understand analogies.
merveil3979 2 months ago
OMG! ....... We don't want to pay you a LIVING WAGE..... we want to continue to pay you a MINIMUM WAGE ! ........ What is this world coming to???
Annietiques 3 months ago 5
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BIG LABOR needs to be destroyed before they can steal even more money from the working class. Thank god Jerry Brown vetoed their latest scam to try and unionize BABY SITTERS here in California. Can you imagine? A Babysitters Union? How? Why?
The corruption in this state is absurd.
FartyFace 3 months ago
@FartyFace your name fits your description, besides being a mornon.
mtrav16 3 months ago
@mtrav16 I'm a moron because I am against government corruption? Nice argument ace!!
FartyFace 3 months ago
The whole poster is about your rights to join or form a union. That is what the NLRB does. I wouldn't call it job killing but I would call it a power play by this office. I wonder if a company posted rights of individual workers (non union) next to this poster what the NLRB would do.
quizerry 3 months ago
@quizerry Those rights are on the poster too. Check it out for yourself. The poster also tells you what a union may not do and that you have the right not to join.
MnMike1970 2 months ago 7
@quizerry I hope you have thanked MNMike1970 for politely answering your question.
johnmburt1960 2 months ago
@quizerry Power-play? Why? What is really in it for them? Now a corporation...They being a FOR PROFIT agency, unlike the NLRB...Not seeing the motivation for the NLRB. I wouldn't doubt that right wing assholes (redundant!) think the unions PAY the NLRB, but that is rather unlikely. Too easy to trace.
johnstonebreaker 2 months ago
Loved the melodramatic music playing enhancing my expectations of what this ruling would do to the workplace of American small businesses. Instead, I only see a guy printing out a legal tender for workers' rights only to be hanged on a bulletin board. NLRB should have put a trollface on the guy's face at the end to fine tune this video.
DanJGrant29 3 months ago 2
This is a great video.
TheCBGBoy 3 months ago 5
OMG ARRRGH the poster is killing JOBS its destroying the workplace OMG OMG runnnnn the kenyan marxist is at it again! AAAARGH!
the1tigglet 3 months ago 7
workers knowing their rights is a threat to democracy (as we know it).
The 1% will nmot allow it.
expatted 3 months ago 6
The humorous video shows the absurdity of the slippery slope claims organizations like the National Federation of Independent Business is making about the potential effects of the poster.
silat13 3 months ago 4
The video has a flaw, though - it doesn't mention that the rule introduces no new rights. That info is only in the side text, which many do not read. So it would be very easy for someone viewing ONLY the video to assume that the flyer being posted at the end listed a bunch of new regulations, and that THAT was what was being complained about by business groups at the beginning.
It should be edited to include the info that the poster lists only rights that employees have had all along.
TeriPettit 3 months ago 3
There is only one group of people who are against hanging up this poster: The very same people who are against worker having those rights in the first place!
Rawlsrocks 3 months ago 48
What's the use of having rights if you don't know you have them?
How many companies would cut corners and save a couple of bucks by screwing their employees out of those rights?
Is anyone else sick and tired of the right-wing's efforts to dismantle the middle class?
bushputz 3 months ago 3
@bushputz "Would" cut corners? How many already do?
KesSharann 3 months ago
@KesSharann
Exactly. I should have said, "How many MORE companies would cut corners if their employees didn't know they had rights?"
Corporations don't have a conscience. They do whatever they can to make a profit.
Without government regulations, corporations would (further) abuse their employees, pollute our air, land, and water, catch the last fish in the sea...
And for what? So they can squeeze every last nickel and make their bottom line look good.
bushputz 3 months ago 8
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@bushputz This is just advertising for the unions. I wonder if the right to work people get to hang their ad next to this NLRB ad. lol
quizerry 3 months ago
@quizerry It's not an "advertisement". It's not "selling" a product. It's a notice of legal rights. "It's just a poster" exactly as the video says. Perhaps you think Miranda rights are verbal SPAM too?
afrump43 3 months ago 7
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@quizerry: It's not an "advertisement". It's not "selling" a product. It's a notice of legal rights. "It's just a poster" exactly as the video says. Perhaps you think Miranda rights are verbal SPAM too?
afrump43 3 months ago 2
Information is power. Not only the words on the poster, but also the knowledge about how the employment relationship was HUMANIZED as it evolved from its roots in the master/servant relationship. Employers did not VOLUNTARILY share decision making power with their employees, just as they did NOT VOLUNTARILY want to get rid of child labor, or equal pay, or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
mckretzschmar 3 months ago 3
It's a burden only if you are planning on denying workers' their rights.
BrotherAlpha 3 months ago 58
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@BrotherAlpha not if you believe in slavery.
fred5399 2 months ago