America's union-busters on the warpath

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Corporate America's anti-union crusaders have raised $200 million to combat the Employee Free Choice Act.

Employers typically prefer to force a union election because it allows them to delay the decision by months while they fire union supporters and force their workers to endure "captive audience" meetings with managers, who threaten to close down the company or move elsewhere in the case of a union victory.

EFCA would also compel recalcitrant employers to bargain with unions, by imposing binding arbitration if there is no agreement reached 120 days after a union wins recognition. This is necessary because roughly half of all new unions never get a contract due to their managements' refusal to bargain in good faith.

But this new phase of the class struggle cannot be won via dueling television ads, however much popular sentiment tilts toward unions. Anti-union corporations spent $50 million on ads skewering Democratic Party candidates during last fall's Congressional campaigns, while unions mustered only about $10 million for the same purpose against Republicans. Tellingly, Specter told reporters about his Republican peers, "I'm being lobbied on it very, very heavily" before he shifted his vote on EFCA.

Neither Senate Democrats nor labor leaders have thus far waged a principled fight approaching the level of determination exhibited by Republicans and the business lobby over EFCA. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on March 10 that Democrats' push for a vote on EFCA might "have to wait until after the August recess" unless Democrats are assured the bill can survive a Republican attempt to filibuster.
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FULL ARTICLE
http://socialistworker.org/2009/03/26/americas-union-busters


I also HIGHLY recommend Sharon Smith's book:
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Very good book.
see article for link.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

1. Make the #$%^#@$ FILIBUSTER!!!!!

Expose them for what they are....ANTI-AMERICAN WORKER.