Employee Free Choice Act Press Conference, 2/6/07

Bill Lawhorn and several co-workers were illegally fired for trying to form a union at Consolidated Biscuit Company.

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• AFL-CIO
• organizing
• justice
• Bill
• Lawhorn
• Employee
• Free
• Choice
• Act

[tripproyalty]

cbc is a shit place to work in the first place.if u cant get hired in at a fastfood place u'll get hired there

[FrankeeFraud]

@00maharum00m Unions are for drunken loafers, who hate work, and are overpaid crybabies who think they can't ever get fired.  I'm glad they canned this asshole. If he's lucky, he might get a job delivering pizzas someday. Like yourself, I'll just bet.

[00maharum00ma]

@FrankeeFraud

If you were listening to him, you would have heard that he did get a job. He had to haul trash to make a living.

And even if he didn't look for a job, it's sort of interesting how you missed the point of the video. A crime was committed against him. He was forced out of the only job he had training for because he exercised his rights to organize.

Stop drooling over chrysler commercials and think a little bit before you say something fucking stupid, you jackass.

[FrankeeFraud]

You haven't worked in four years? Is it any wonder? Time to get off your lazy ass, stop whining, & go to work already.

[townsendart]

Sorry 9aspengold5, I beg to differ with you. Union workers are the voice of the union.

[9aspengold5]

Sorry, Townsendart, I spent 3 years under the control of a Union while working at a Grocery Chain. I gained nothing. I lost 1/3 of my pay every month for Union dues. when the Union's decided to Strike, the employees went home with NO pay, while the governors of the Union continued to receive pay. You know--the union dues we paid over the years. !! Like I said before, the Unions were a good idea at first, but then became big business.

[townsendart]

It's obvious that your knowledge of unions is limited. Workers represent themselves. They are not "strangers sent in from the outside."

[9aspengold5]

Read the small print before applying for a job. If you don't like the practices or pay scales, then go somewhere else that will make you happier. Would you want a stranger walking into your home; telling how to live your life, what to eat, how to clean? NO. so don't try to force an employer to change their focus just to please you. Unions were a great idea at first, but they have become big business themselves.

[mclemcleod83]

This isn't a communist government. If workers want a union then they should get one. If workers don't want a union then they should't have it. Let the workers take a vote to see if they really would want a union. I don't know maybe the owners don't believe in voting.

[raw420x]

you are a great American Patriot, keep up the good fight , Unions equal better pay, secure pensions, and great working conditions.

that's what these "SCAB" companies are afraid of.