The US Chamber Of Commerce Releases New Legislative Guide To Steal Workers Rights

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NH Labor News

By Matt Murray

If you ever thought the US Chamber of Commerce was working on your behalf, man were you wrong. Their only agenda is to screw workers out of their rights so they can maximize their corporate member’s profit margins.

Yesterday, the US Chamber of Commerce released their 2016 “Tools for Growth” report that details how states can reform their labor laws to “promote a favorable business climate.”

The report is basically a guideline for state legislators to push anti-union, anti-worker legislation that serves to line the pockets of wealthy business owners and corporate executives.

These laws are not designed to help workers in any way. They are intended to weaken or outright break unions by attempting to legislate away our rights.

FULL story at link. Matt Murray is a DUer



About Matt Murray
Matt Murray is the creator and an author on the NH Labor News. He is a union member and advocate for labor and progressive politics. He also works with other unions and members to help spread our message. Follow him on Twitter @NHLabor_News



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[NHLabor]

1. K & R

Thanks for sharing!

[Populist_Prole]

2. As if capital doesn't hold enough of an edge over labor as it is.

"Tools for growth" my ass.

Well OK, they are tools, so they're kinda right.

[k8conant]

3. This is disgusting...

all about employers' "rights" to deny workers' rights.

[ancianita]

4. US Chamber of Commerce is the CEOs union of corporate America. Powell Memo globalists.

It's the largest lobbying organization in America with 115 American Chamber of Commerce affiliates located in 108 countries.[24] The US Chamber says that a relative handful of the Chamber's 300,000 members are "non-U.S.-based (foreign) companies." It claims that, "No foreign money is used to fund political activities." A US Chamber executive has said that the organization has had "foreign multinationals" (foreign companies) as members for "over a century, many for decades."[25] The US Chamber states that it receives approximately $100,000 annually in membership dues from its foreign affiliates, out of an annual budget of $200 million.

AmCham China, with members comprise more than 2,600 individuals from over 1,200 companies, is said to be the largest affiliate outside of United States

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Electoral activities
In the 2008 election cycle, aggressive ads paid for by the USCC attacked a number of Democratic congressional candidates (such as Minnesota's DFL Senate candidate Al Franken) and supported a number of Republican candidates including John Sununu, Gordon Smith, Roger Wicker, Saxby Chambliss and Elizabeth Dole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce

Tom Donahue is its current president. Florida's Vern Buchanan, one of the top ten riches guys in Congress, with several yacht and private jet charter holdings here in Florida (heaven knows what their lessees are up to around the Caribbean, right?) used to be its president.

Capitalism's and the MIC's tools seek to sink their parasitic fangs ever deeper into the labor host.

[Dustlawyer]

10. They filed an Amicus (friend of the court) brief in the BP case supporting BP against

all of the individuals and small businesses on the Gulf Coast. We sent it around to all of the local Chambers of Commerce along the Gulf Coast who were furious and felt betrayed.

They have been funding every judicial election for decades stacking the deck against lawsuits by individuals vs. corporations. It is really paying off for them!

[ancianita]

14. Thanks for the additional info. How is it that an army of lawyers makes this okay for them?

How is it that one group of corporate lawyers makes the social contract and general non-corporate values of the nation stand in courts of law??

If you're a lawyer, I'm seriously asking. This ongoing conflict of interest at the heart of the legal profession's practice for fictional personhoods really hurts the soul of the average citizen.

[Dustlawyer]

16. Trust me (I'm a lawyer) and I dont get it!

Our corrupt campaign finance system has far reaching effects. Money and donations are king, you get whatever you want if you can pay to play. The laws you don't like are replaced with ones that you do if you are one of the very wealthy donors in this country.

[ancianita]

17. What you say sounds so random/piecemeal. A massive constitutional review of corporate law is

needed to weigh the private interest of fictional personhoods against the public interest.

When the few personhoods -- a minority of the population, even if they number in the tens of thousands -- deprive, systematically, the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of several citizen socioeconomic levels, a major national convening seems in order.

[TIME TO PANIC]

5. K & R! n/t

[Duval]

6. K&R nt

[zentrum]

7. The Chamber

…..has always been lined up against workers. Always.

These organizations are always very carefully named in order to hide their absolute aggression against the ordinary, non-millionaire citizen. They define "capitalism" in the most narrow, Mussolini-style way.

[Pakid]

8. Greedy SOB

May the fires of Hell be tended by union workers send down from Heaven just for this job so they can really fry these SOB

[Fritz Walter]

9. Excuse me. I have to go sharpen the tines on my pitchfork

I'm guessing these plutocrats totally ignored Nick Hanauer's TED Talk.

At their own peril.

[ancianita]

15. Then again, he's just one guy. My concern is how/why lawyers prop up corporate America.

[lark]

11. Chamber of Commerce is pro big business and anti worker.

Always has been and always will be.

[Tobin S.]

12. K&R

[silvershadow]

13. K&R

[wildeyed]

18. Fuck 'em.

Seriously. The local affiliate, not much better, tries to get me to join They are NOT on the side of small business, either.