McGovern on Card Check

George McGovern on the card check issue.

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• labor
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• McGovern

[corpbs1]

It seems like Democrats and Republicans alike are unwilling to front up to, and do anything meaningful about, what has really led to the Depression we are now entering. And we are entering one. Forget all the BS about whether it's slow recovery, stalled recovery or 'double dip'. Private enterprise and capitalism has been corrupted, particularly in the US, by massive fraud, graft and corruption. The answer is in cleaning up the fraud, not ending capitalism. But no one seems to want to do it.

[unionguy36]

groniga, with every comment you post here, you prove that you know nothing whatsoever about U.S. labor law or the reality of American workplaces. And that you're a total asskisser to the wealthy crooks who have ruined this country.

But why should total ignorance prevent you from expressing your uninformed opinion?

[unionguy36]

You've obviously never been through an NLRB workplace election. After a few weeks of the supervisors interrogating workers one-on-one (coached every step of the way by professional union busters), the employer knows how every nearly employee will vote. The so-called "secret ballot" is a cruel hoax in this situation.

THAT'S WHY THERE ARE FAR MORE AMERICAN WORKERS WHO WANT TO BE IN UNIONS THAN THOSE WHO ACTUALLY ARE IN UNIONS!

[groniga]

Although we are going through an economic downturn there are many other people you can work for. They don't have to hire you! Take away the rich people, the companies you'd be out of a job. Be an entrepreneur if you don't like how there treating you. Stop acting like the system is fixed against you. I believe in basic anti monopoly laws, a tax system that carries the same burden across income, but i don't hate the wealthy like you do.

[unionguy36]

So I "don't have an inherent right to a job"? Apparently you believe the only "rights" a working class person has are to take whatever crap a rich person or corporation chooses to dish out, or starve to death. And I guess you also believe that the rich have an "inherent right" to own everything and abuse the rest of us anyway they like.

[unionguy36]

A study by Harvard Prof. Richard Freeman found that 58% of American workers want to be in a union, but only 12.4% are in unions. Why? Because the current law lets employers get away with terrorizing workers to keep them from unionizing.

Which industry dragged our whole country, and the world, into the current economic hole? Banking. What percentage of workers in the U.S. banking industry are unionized? Approximately zero. We need unions to restore some equality, balance and economic sanity

[unionguy36]

The point is, the current law is toothless. You can't sue, you have to file charges with the National Labor Relations Board, which takes years to do anything. The best you can hope for is, a couple of years later, to have the NLRB rule that you should get your job back with back pay, minus whatever you earned in the meantime. Employers know the law won't punish them for violating workers' rights -- that's why they do it. And McGovern is one of their enablers.

[groniga]

than quit.. find a different job. you don't have an inherent right to a job. If they threatened to fire you for forming an union you can sue..

[groniga]

you can still organize

[somersetdc]

I always liked George McGovern...sad to see he's become a shill for corporations in their fight against worker's rights to organize. Very sad.