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Jeff-Hulk-Hemp
Post Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:19 pm

Joined: 10 Feb 2006
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Bill and others I would to hear your reactions to this post .

http://www.suntimes.com/output/otherviews/cst-edt-ref13.html

BY JOHN SWEENEY AND MARGARET BLACKSHERE
Vanishing retirement security. Rising health-care costs. Gas prices north of $3 a gallon. Workers in every industry are feeling the crunch of an increasingly harsh economy. As if it weren't difficult enough for working families to make ends meet, the Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board is poised to issue a series of decisions that could take away the one avenue to economic security left for America's workers: the freedom to form and join unions.

This summer, nurses, construction workers, painters, welders, electricians and others who have exercised their freedom to have a voice on the job are bracing for the latest assault on their rights. In reality, the labor board decisions have the potential to affect workers in every industry. The labor board's rulings in three cases collectively known as "Kentucky River" could strip hundreds of thousands of workers of their union protection, while many more could be blocked from joining a union.
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SharynS
Post Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:48 pm

Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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In a democracy, the people have the right to be heard.
It's very simple - let the people be heard and before it's too late - according to the afl team we're running out of time. sweeney et al appear to understand what the answer is - now all they have to do is do it. Put some of their healthy paychecks, benefits and perks back into the kitty so people can withstand a battle, knock off the bs spin and rhetoric and climb out of the corporate bed.

Don't hold your breath Jeff, there's been multitudes of opportunities for the biz-u guys to turn this boat around and they've failed each and every time. They want to have their cake and our cake and eat it to, at the expense of the people. The very same people they say are now being attacked.

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