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Hi Kai:<br><br>
I bet if you matched the list of corporate villains and the dollar
amounts of their corruption over the same period, it would far exceed
this list. The housing market debacle is just one of them and it
will be difficult to calculate the loss surrounding 100,000s of homes
standing empty being robbed of their innards and lost to the tax
rolls.<br><br>
With regard to this bill, this is the one time that I wish that the
president had a line-item veto. The funds should be restored but
only if Senate Republicans agree to a majority vote on the Employee Free
Choice Act. Why should the 60 million worker who want to vote for a
union be punished for the sins of the few. If they think unions are
so corrupt (their employers will certainly tell them so), they will vote
accordingly.<br><br>
The vote has to be fair, not under the coercive conditions that union
representation votes now occur. Employees report twice as much
coercion during union elections as they do during card signing drives,
which current law allows employers to waive in favor of elections that
don't even come close to the elections that you and I participate
in.<br><br>
Thanks for the dialogue,<br><br>
Nick<br>
Hi Kai:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">This is typical anti-union
screed that applies to unions of yesteryear. There is far more
corruption in 8 years of the Bush administration than there has been in
any union during that time.<br>
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The Hart Associates poll indicated that 58 percent of non-managerial
workers want to vote for a union. Why aren't they being allowed to
vote? Study after study demonstrates that it is employer
intimidation, coercion, and outright firing of employees.<br><br>
Nick<br><br>
cAt 11:14 AM 9/3/2008, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">It's funny how you left out
well-documented incidents of union coercion and intimidation, that union
management became just as greedy, and more corrupt, than company managers
and bullied their way into contracts that essentially spelled doom for
the unions and the companies. Union rules made companies bloated and
slow, unable to compete with sleeker, more efficient companies from
abroad. Union finances aren't open to public scrutiny making that money
ripe for the picking by unscrupulous leaders and mobsters. I doubt anyone
in their right mind would disagree about organized crime's influence on
the unions. Gallons of blood have been spilled and many bodies lay in
unmarked graves because of unions, and not because they were striking for
better pay or conditions, but over who controls the cash. Las Vegas was
built with cash union employees paid in dues and entrusted to their
leaders, who were in cahoots with mobsters. What did the average Joe on
the factory floor get out of it? Not one dime, but some kids got to
"Grow up Gotti". Unions have broken the trust of the people
over and over through the years, they can blame corporations and
presidents for their decline, but they need to take a close, hard look
into the mirror and admit they were equally culpable. Until unions
operate openly and honestly and regain the trust of those they were
formed to serve, they will continue to decline.
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