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pq9q (October 7, 2008 at 8:52 pm)
he didn't say eliminate it, he suggested we check to see if the voters are ACTUALLY union members. norm coleman can suck a big fat wiener
emersonushc13 (September 25, 2008 at 7:11 pm)
Your vote should be kept a secret. Any other way is a load of crap.
o0xst (August 6, 2008 at 6:21 pm)
I smell a rat.
Gammaclipper (August 2, 2008 at 5:22 am)
Ok, time for an insiders perspective on unions. I am a member of the UFCW because I am working in a grocery store to help pay my way through school for my second degree. Because I am technically part-time I don't get anything but I still pay dues. Joining the UFCW is a condition of employment even though I didn't want to. Union contract says that I get a 15 minute break every 3 hours but I don't get to take it. Managers and senior staff do get benefits and set hours.
Makron5 (August 1, 2008 at 8:43 pm)
Actually in Europe Unions have had a very positive effect and unions in America have become very misunderstood. There are some awful unions, but unions in general have upped worker safety and have supported workers rights. The one for GM however should just curl up and reform for their horrendous backpay scheme that adds extreme legacy costs that make them non-competitive with Japanese manufacturers.
DParker39 (July 23, 2008 at 11:02 am)
Bruce Raynor, president of the UNITE HERE union, must not have been speaking for all unions when he quipped: "There's no reason to subject the workers to an election."
conkreen (July 22, 2008 at 7:56 pm)
No, how it is, is that those who want a union fill out the cards, this would mean that it will become a union without a vote, unless 30% of the workers would like a vote. And just so you know Unions do tell people about their rights when starting a union.-Aisling
Gammaclipper (July 22, 2008 at 6:50 am)
But what if a worker doesn't want to be in the union? Well he's out a job because the union forced a contract with the business that said it could only employ union members.Result is that all workers, even those that don't want the union but can't get work elsewhere end up paying dues. Unions are a business. Their membership has been declining in America because they've outlived their usefullness in some industries. They need more members so they can have more money, this is a way to do it.
DParker39 (July 18, 2008 at 10:31 am)
So let me get this straight, a paid union organizer goes into a business collects signed cards from 30% of the workforce and then calls everybody in for the election? Get real. Why call for an election you could lose at 30% when a simple majority of cards means immediate recognition? Isn't it the job of the paid union organizer to win? Is the union organizer going to advise workers about election rights?Sounds like the union is calling all the shots, not workers.
conkreen (July 16, 2008 at 4:59 pm)
Not so. They can still choose to have a vote if they would like. They being if 30% of the WORKERS want a vote. The workers not the business would control weather a vote is needed. This stops the business from tying to intimated to the workers from with drawing the want of a union. Basically the proposed it just the same as the current expect that the proposed shift the who makes the decision of a vote fro the business to the worker. Also currently workers still fill out the cards.-Aisling |
