Rachel Maddow connects Union Busting to EFCA Opposition

Rachel Maddow explains that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) actually offers a second path to Unionizing, 1) either Secret Ballot or 2) just signing a Card. The advantage of the 2nd path is that Management DOES NOT get tipped off ahead of time, and does not get weeks to "scare" employees about the "dangers of joining Unions."

An episode of The Office is used to illustrate -- just how Management will typically "taint"those "Secret Ballot Election". The Message "Vote for the Union -- and Lose your Job!" So much for "Free Elections".

Rachel then describes a shady industry known as "Union Busting", who hire out like a posse -- who Management relies on to do the real Intimidation dirty work, so that Union formation rarely has a "fair" chance. The current system insures they have several weeks to do their dirty work before the "Secret Ballot" Election finally happens.

A reformed Union Buster Martin Levitt, describes his previous career, and how Busters will use any measures, to prevent Union Elections from succeeding. He describes the Union Busting Industry as "having more than 10,000 practitioners":




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddjIJ-4y1mw

Here's the the Union Busting playbooks:

http://www.buwcouncil.org/techniques_used_by_companies_to_deny_you_your_choic...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3326/unionbusting_confidential/

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Rachel Maddow
• Unions
• EFCA
• Employee Free Choice Act
• Card Check
• Union Busting
• The Office
• Middle Class
• Workers
• Employer Intimidation
• Martin Levitt

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Unions more often vote for Democrats because they favorer the middle class and prefer trickle up economics that put money in the consumers wallets. Republicans know there is strength in numbers and thats the only reason they are trying to bust unions. A hard lesson they learned in the last elections. And all the union haters you run across are most likely bitter Republican voters that know they lost because of union voters.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Dont come back with your scare tactics, the current economic model is to maximize profits and keep the wealth pooled at the top and then keep the country and the middle class in debt. Then they have their soldiers hammer down wages, divide the work force and make people think its for their own good.

[blanchelincoln]

Thank the Good Lord once this (EFCA) saw the light of day it was DOA. And thank the Good Lord for Taft-Hartley.

[AussieEnigma777]

@FluxCapacitor2008 You need a recharge their flux, THESE days companies simply want to 'survive' Unions want MORE MORE and if they don't keep promimising it....ask youself this, would YOU vote for the leaders who stand? Now.. a thinking person knows that there are limits to how much 'more' a company can provide. That limit is reached when a) It closes (all lose jobs) b) It moves to China (all lose jobs) Sadly, once they close....they're closed.

[hoboboxerjoe]

@032490mf, lmao, care to explain or do you jsut prefer to make idiotic remarks?

[samdoofy]

@032490mf Thumbs up to that.

[032490mf]

This is one communist bitch

[ASentinel2]

@QuatFax I care nothing about her opinion on unions or onions or her dyke friends or the vietnamese children she does what with? You must travel in weird circles.

In the meantime I'm just passing on the story I read.

As to Maddow...? Piss on her.

[QuatFax]

@FluxCapacitor2008 While I agree that unions are good, I disagree with taxing imports from low wage countries. That only encourages a war against the innocent workers of that country. We should instead try to unionize those workers so that they're making the same wages that unionized workers make here. That way, things are better for everyone.

[QuatFax]

@TargetGuy2245 I think the point is that they get fired while trying to form a union. Once they're in the union, they may be safe, but it's difficult to get into the union in the first place.

[QuatFax]

@ASentinel2 Let's imagine that this story were actually true. What does it have to do with what she's saying in this video? You could demonstrate that she sodomizes little Vietnamese children daily and it wouldn't prove a damn thing about her arguments in favor of unions.

Yours is an ad hominem attack. It does nothing to further anyone's understanding of the issues.

[ASentinel2]

Rachel Maddow was reportedly found 'humping' a seat arm on the train while in New York for a brief holiday. She had taken XTC (witnesses said) and she found the movement of the train exciting-so much so in fact that she actually soiled her panty and uncontrollably had bowel movements while writhing back and forth on the seat edge.

This all became too clear when at one point she fell over due to the shifting of the care and the fecal matter smeared in her crouch leg & the floor became visible.