businesses in forced union states are at a disadvantage. Their cost of doing business is higher than right to work states making it harder to make a profit.
TIP: Don't call it right to work for less. Nearly half of our states have been captured by corporate power. Indiana is the newest Corporate Captured state.
BTW, corporate control of the state also goes by another name. FASCISM
It is fascism we are fighting today. It will be fascism that will destroy us if we lose.
People should have the right to join a union or not, plain and simple. It shouldn't be forced upon them. There are other laws that protect workers rights now. RTW give the employers a way to get rid of the dead weight that are there to collect a paycheck and not work as hard as the rest! Amazing how Reagans views changed when he matured..
Taft-Hartley is a so called 10th amendment bill is unconstional on the grounds of the 10th amendment which says the states rights but if the state constitutions say nothing then its THE PEOPLES RIGHT!!!
@KripDrip You're right median income has been stagnant for the past 30 years while the economy as a whole has quintupled, But the decline in union muscle-power doesn't have a whole lot to do with that fact as far as I can tell. All things being equal across-the-board wage increases just push the costs of employing a worker up, which drives the prices of products up (or worse, reduces employment) OR prices rise anyway from demand-pull inflation and effectively nothing really changes.
@KripDrip Not everything, the price of consumer electronics, automobiles, communications devices, high speed internet, certain retail items are falling while food, gas, and other staples are rising. Housing is also the lowest its been since 2001. My point is raising wages just for the sake of raising them only gives the appearance of greater wealth, but that achieves nothing if prices rise right along with them. It also actually decreases the value of hard-earned savings people tucked away.
@KripDrip I'd also suggest that one oft overlooked reason wages have remained flat is because of employer provided healthcare. Initially providing healthcare to workers was an appealing option to employers, because it was an attractive benefit which was not taxed. Now that almost all care is employer provided, and the costs of care keep soaring, employers have to eat those higher insurance premiums, and that's reflected in the depressed salaries of working folks like ourselves.
In 2003, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, said, "Perhaps the most important, and then highly controversial, domestic initiative was the firing of the air traffic controllers in August 1981. The President invoked the law that striking government employees forfeit their jobs, an action that unsettled those who cynically believed no President would ever uphold that law
President Reagan prevailed, as you know, but far more importantly his action gave weight to the legal right of private employers, previously not fully exercised, to use their own discretion to both hire and discharge workers."
BY THE WAY, The Senate was controlled by Democrats from 1948-1979. Note: the U.S. Senate was controlled by Republicans briefly from 1953-1955. However, the U.S. House of Representatives had been governed by Democrats from 1948-1994.
@Djmemez taft hartely act was 1947? repeal it from 1948-? impossible as even Truman couldn't get it vetoed am i correct? ever hear of the expression republicans disguised as democrats? i laugh at useful idiots that believed reagan was a great president as they can easily be dumbed down into believing the earth is flat and the sun revolves around our planet. for 30 years conservatives have lived off the stupidity of american voters and they'll use these useful idiots to destroy america by 2012.
@cyclonegt1969 - Taft-Hartley (The Labor–Management Relations Act) was enacted in June 23, 1947. U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947. Conservatives misrepresent Reagan's legacy. Reagan was a liberal Republican, moderate at best. The Alan Greenspan quote is dead on. When Reagan fired the PATCO govt. union, this gave private employers the upper hand to act accordingly. Reagan was an actor, facade. He knew how to market himself and sell himself. Something the DNC should learn.
When President Reagan fired the govenment PATCO union in 1981 he invoked the Act of Taft-Hartely of 1947 to fire them. The union had violated Federal law (which it did) but he stated that he was in favor of private sector unions to strike and redress their grievances.
This action, however, embolden businesses to fire/threaten/blackmail private union workers -- they took the toll whereas public sector unions grew. Now the Republicans want to take out the public sector, use the private sector unions as leverage and the economy to their advantage.
The Republicans are using dire times to deunionize much of the public sector, further discourage the private sector from unionizing. Republicans are opportunistic.
You shouldnt be forced by the government to join a union or quit. Here in the UK most people are in unions because if you are not and your work goes on strike you will be a social outcast/ target of verbal and physical abuse.
businesses in forced union states are at a disadvantage. Their cost of doing business is higher than right to work states making it harder to make a profit.
KripDrip 6 days ago
TIP: Don't call it right to work for less. Nearly half of our states have been captured by corporate power. Indiana is the newest Corporate Captured state.
BTW, corporate control of the state also goes by another name. FASCISM
It is fascism we are fighting today. It will be fascism that will destroy us if we lose.
Tasermaxx 1 month ago
People should have the right to join a union or not, plain and simple. It shouldn't be forced upon them. There are other laws that protect workers rights now. RTW give the employers a way to get rid of the dead weight that are there to collect a paycheck and not work as hard as the rest! Amazing how Reagans views changed when he matured..
Drives88 1 month ago
Taft-Hartley is a so called 10th amendment bill is unconstional on the grounds of the 10th amendment which says the states rights but if the state constitutions say nothing then its THE PEOPLES RIGHT!!!
Salvysahagun 1 month ago
Imagine if Taft Harley applied to paying income taxes to our Union of 50 states???
rwcbanzai 1 month ago
Right to work for less...more like right to work for free.
hammer2fall2k10 1 month ago 2
Unions really don't have any power any more, I think they've outserved their purpose which was to improve working conditions and workplace safety.
xxcrysad3000xx 1 month ago
its about wages. Wages arent going up. Ever since the unions disapeared, median wages never kept up with productivity.
KripDrip 6 days ago
@KripDrip You're right median income has been stagnant for the past 30 years while the economy as a whole has quintupled, But the decline in union muscle-power doesn't have a whole lot to do with that fact as far as I can tell. All things being equal across-the-board wage increases just push the costs of employing a worker up, which drives the prices of products up (or worse, reduces employment) OR prices rise anyway from demand-pull inflation and effectively nothing really changes.
xxcrysad3000xx 4 days ago
prices are already going up on everything even when real wages are flat or falling
KripDrip 4 days ago
@KripDrip Not everything, the price of consumer electronics, automobiles, communications devices, high speed internet, certain retail items are falling while food, gas, and other staples are rising. Housing is also the lowest its been since 2001. My point is raising wages just for the sake of raising them only gives the appearance of greater wealth, but that achieves nothing if prices rise right along with them. It also actually decreases the value of hard-earned savings people tucked away.
xxcrysad3000xx 4 days ago
@KripDrip I'd also suggest that one oft overlooked reason wages have remained flat is because of employer provided healthcare. Initially providing healthcare to workers was an appealing option to employers, because it was an attractive benefit which was not taxed. Now that almost all care is employer provided, and the costs of care keep soaring, employers have to eat those higher insurance premiums, and that's reflected in the depressed salaries of working folks like ourselves.
xxcrysad3000xx 4 days ago
Americans cannot live w/out slavery. They should get over it. Democracy is an impediment to the slave state.
zebraluna 1 month ago
Anyone remember that scene in the movie "Eight Men Out". I just did for some reason.
"Sport Sullivan: You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him?
Jimmy: What?
Sport Sullivan: Just enough so he knows he's hungry. "
t43700 1 month ago
"no progressive radio stations," why doesnt the left start some radio stations?
optionsupdate 1 month ago 2
wait Reagen was a progressive?
NickParisho 1 month ago
FDR still inspirational almost 80 years later. If only Obama were half the man he was.
rjbonacolta 1 month ago 7
@rjbonacolta Well figuring that FDR was a half man to begin with I would say Obama is not a quarter of a man he was
NickParisho 1 month ago
In 2003, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, said, "Perhaps the most important, and then highly controversial, domestic initiative was the firing of the air traffic controllers in August 1981. The President invoked the law that striking government employees forfeit their jobs, an action that unsettled those who cynically believed no President would ever uphold that law
Djmemez 1 month ago
President Reagan prevailed, as you know, but far more importantly his action gave weight to the legal right of private employers, previously not fully exercised, to use their own discretion to both hire and discharge workers."
Djmemez 1 month ago
@Djmemez
Ron Paul Ayn Rand Paul 2012 !!!
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"Greed is Good, Selfish is Moral"
hadith04 1 month ago
BY THE WAY, The Senate was controlled by Democrats from 1948-1979. Note: the U.S. Senate was controlled by Republicans briefly from 1953-1955. However, the U.S. House of Representatives had been governed by Democrats from 1948-1994.
Djmemez 1 month ago
@Djmemez taft hartely act was 1947? repeal it from 1948-? impossible as even Truman couldn't get it vetoed am i correct? ever hear of the expression republicans disguised as democrats? i laugh at useful idiots that believed reagan was a great president as they can easily be dumbed down into believing the earth is flat and the sun revolves around our planet. for 30 years conservatives have lived off the stupidity of american voters and they'll use these useful idiots to destroy america by 2012.
cyclonegt1969 1 month ago
@cyclonegt1969 - Taft-Hartley (The Labor–Management Relations Act) was enacted in June 23, 1947. U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947. Conservatives misrepresent Reagan's legacy. Reagan was a liberal Republican, moderate at best. The Alan Greenspan quote is dead on. When Reagan fired the PATCO govt. union, this gave private employers the upper hand to act accordingly. Reagan was an actor, facade. He knew how to market himself and sell himself. Something the DNC should learn.
Djmemez 1 month ago
When President Reagan fired the govenment PATCO union in 1981 he invoked the Act of Taft-Hartely of 1947 to fire them. The union had violated Federal law (which it did) but he stated that he was in favor of private sector unions to strike and redress their grievances.
Djmemez 1 month ago
This action, however, embolden businesses to fire/threaten/blackmail private union workers -- they took the toll whereas public sector unions grew. Now the Republicans want to take out the public sector, use the private sector unions as leverage and the economy to their advantage.
Djmemez 1 month ago
The Republicans are using dire times to deunionize much of the public sector, further discourage the private sector from unionizing. Republicans are opportunistic.
Djmemez 1 month ago
You shouldnt be forced by the government to join a union or quit. Here in the UK most people are in unions because if you are not and your work goes on strike you will be a social outcast/ target of verbal and physical abuse.
flake452 1 month ago
oh ronnie - when did they buy you?????????
freedom1234573 1 month ago
LONG LIVE THE OLIGARCHY!!! LONG LIIVE THE OLIGARCHY!! USA USA USA!!!!
freedom1234573 1 month ago
WE ARE SO FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
freedom1234573 1 month ago
Damn. We need another FDR. I hope Obama improves, but seriously . . .
x0PUNKER0X 1 month ago
thom hartmann - the most informative news in the US
iglwy 1 month ago 5
@iglwy YUP!!
freedom1234573 1 month ago
We all do better when we all do better.
Senator Paul Wellstone, RIP
bbhihoney 1 month ago 2
@bbhihoney The same people that killed Kennedy killed Wellstone. I wish he was still alive. He would be a great president.
captcrais101 1 month ago