Freeing Workers from Union Bosses

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For the first time in decades, union power is under serious threat. Indiana is on the verge of becoming the 23rd state to enact a right-to-work law, liberating workers from being forced to join a union. New Hampshire may also adopt some form of right-to-work. Murmurs about a national right-to-work law are growing. Public sector unions continue to face efforts to curb their power and trim their lavish contracts.

And now there’s a shrewd new challenge to organized labor: the Employee Rights Act. It would take labor law in a new direction. Unlike right-to-work statutes, which help businesses escape unionization, the ERA would protect union workers from high-handedness and abuses of power by their union leaders.

The measure was formulated by Richard Berman, a Washington lobbyist and longtime foe of excessive union power in labor relations and politics. It’s been passionately embraced by Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah and 20 other Republican senators. In the House, its chief sponsor is Tim Scott of South Carolina, a star of the freshman class of 87 Republicans.

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  • Freedom for Patriots

    The Unions delcared War on the American Middle class last summer with Obama and Biden. The Unions need to be stop at all cost. I got a look at the teamsters handbook and it read like the Communist play book (thats the American Unions/Communist). We Conservatives need to take back this nation from the Liberal/Union/Communist/Democrats NOW! Dr. Michael Williams book "The Law of Attraction and the Subconscious Mind, 2nd Edition provides us Conservatives the tools to build wealth and when the Conservatives have Money the Liberals LOSS every time. Get a copy at http://www.reallawofattraction.net or at Amazon.com. The liberals don't want us Conservatives getting our hands on this book believe me! Get a copy today before its too late! God Bless America!

  • http://aol.com david peacock

    aCTUALLY IT IS freeing workers from the COSA NOSTRA, MAFA-MILIA AND jAMES HOFFA jr. AND RICHARD TRUMPKA and BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

    • ruth

      Wouldn't you just love to see fat ass Trumpka and Hoffa and Hussein Obama taken down?

  • http://aol.com david peacock

    aMERICANS MUST ALSO STAND UP FOR; Scott Walker, John Kaisich, Mitch Daniels.

  • John Detwiler

    If youthink the Teamsters handbook is extreme, then try to get a look at the Longshoremen"s. Unions are no longer needed. And they are the main reason that the American Government and State government are on the verge of bankruptsy. When you haver teachers who are unfit to teach but you still have to pay them because of Tenior, then things are out of kilter. And take a look at a Longshoreman's retirement pay and paid up health care and you will have an Ideaa why Unions should be oblished, at the very least Public Workers Unions. Federal (SEIU) workers Unions. Police and Firemen could and truthfully should be an exception, but only for negotiation puposes.

    • dingbat36

      The Longshoremen have always been just plain violent………..did you see what they did to the port of Tacoma? It wasn't even their union that was having a problem………….they were just acting in sympathy. If that was sympathy, I'd hate to see any real ANGER!!

  • http://aol.com david peacock

    unions are fossils of a long gone era; employers no longer need to be monitored; BUT THE UNIONS SURELY DO.

    • tommyd88

      You know , while I do wish that were true it is not.. I work for a very large employer with a Union relationship.

      While it would be nice if "The Company" would in most cases do the right thing it is not reality by a long shot.

      Are Unions corrupt? Yes many are, Union officials are nothing but corrupt politicians..

      This Richard Trumpka person is about as disgusting a POS as they come.. Pretty typical of the type..

      There are a lot of hard working good people in unions.. Not ALL are worthy of being painted with your broad brush..

      • Dave

        There is no doubt that Union people are hard working people. I don't think that's people's concern's. Their/my concern is that the Union's while being needed and useful 30-40 year's ago have now taken it so far that they are ruining the workabilty of most companies, gov'ts, everything realated. When the Union has become so powerful that you cannot fire an employee that should be fired, they are wrong and out of control. When people start to realize, which is where we find ourselve's today, that NO MATTER what they do or do not do they cannot or will not be fired, it's out of control..Union's when first created were good thing's because people were not paid a living wage, they were overworked and all of the bad. However, today the gov't has enough regulation's to keep that from normally happening plus the court's are available alot more to those that would need them then when Union;s were created.
        As someone posted above, Union's have outlived their usefullness and now are nothing more then luxury vacation's and job security for the bosses..

        • tommyd88

          No, that is unfortunately incorrect on many counts.

          Some are under the impression that all large corporations are some fair and benevolent father figure and that is just Not so.

          You are fooling your self making statements as broad as you are.

          But it sounds good and everyone can jump on your band wagon and feel good…

          quote:
          "However, today the gov't has enough regulation's to keep that from normally happening plus the court's are available a lot more to those that would need them then when Union;s were created.
          As someone posted above, Union's have outlived their usefulness and now are nothing more then luxury vacation's and job security for the bosses.."

          It is not the complete truth in any shape or form… I know simply because I have seen it with my own eyes and do not have to depend on some so called journo to tell me what I need to be thinking..

          Try , just try taking a corporation like Hal……. to court, just remember you did sign that arbitration clause when you hired out and I promise you you gave away many of your constitutional rights when you did.. Go ahead and don't believe me, I KNOW better. You will say oh that's not possible, bulls#!t it's not. I have seen it and it is condoned by the courts..
          You just have not looked into the situation deep enough because you would not like what you will find..

  • Norm Klevens

    OSHA and insurance carriers inspect work places after a complaint or based on industry concentrations and less effectively, after a serious accident or fatality. State laws positively affect wages and working conditions. Unions are the dinosaurs of labor. Unions raise the price of goods and services for consumers and competition between non union and union companies is tough as the union wage does not allow the union contractor to bid against the non union firm. Tax payers take it in the chin as school construction costs are increased by the requirement in LA, anyway to have union only construction contractors. Yeah, unions do have great training programs, but the construction worker, who pays dues to the union, can pay to attend training course outside of the union to assure qualified construction trades. The unions have gone to far in telling the unemployed tax payer "pay me a higher wage". – "take the money out o f your kids college fund to pay me" Over the line.

  • Vexed Vet

    Being forced to join a union to make a living and support your family then being shook down for your hard earned money to support some slack jaw, hired help politician who wants to steal your rights and give the rest of your property, (money) to parisites sitting on their arsses with hands out. This is progress-o-crat social 'justice'! Can we all say 'utopia'?

    This crap must have been dreamed up by Chicago maffia protection rackets and the commie party. It fits right in with this regime's scam to make Americans buy a product, (health care), ( which is just a start; if you are forced to buy health care there of thousands of Government Motors one lung, piece of crap death traps you will have to buy as well).

    No forced union membership, dues shake down or health care nation wide if we can finally get politicians that work for the honest, hard working Americans.

  • samtman

    We need Unions now more than ever, waes have gone down at the same rate as unions have been beat back by big business and the their lackeys the far right. Wages for the middle class have been stagnant since R. Reagan started the war against Unions, while the one percenters paycheck has gone up by 470% at the expense of the average woking man and woman.

    • Simsalabim

      Ronald Reagan was the president of the Screen Actors Guild- a union. He simply fired the PATCO controllers that by law were required to man their jobs. I'm in the IBEW and we by our own contract cannot go out on strike or honor picket lines. By the way, Dick Cheney was union electrician in the IBEW. Sarah Palin is honorary member of the IBEW in Alaska because she did so much to protect the jobs of union electricians.

      Unions have in the past fought for the rights of workers. Unfortunately, they are now bastions of liberalism. Many union members are ill-informed about the issues. Many that I work with are truly conservative but vote for the dim-bulb Democrat because they won't inform themselves or admit the hypocrisy of that party.

      Liberalism is really a mental disorder.

  • Maxine

    Unions are pigs and need to go hopefuly like hoffa did he disapeared with out a trace maybe these big union thugs will to

  • Stephen Russell

    Now how can one legally Remove Unions via Outside force (consumers) & within by Members?
    IE
    UFCW, Teamsters etc.
    Or alter rules to Protect workers from Union thug boss mobs.
    Then Ill sign those petitions Big time.

  • Ron Powell

    Having been a member of IBEW for 30 years and a steward I can tell you we seldom voted with the leadership because they actively promoted liberals. Other unions such as the teamsters use intimidation during meetings to keep members in line. Trumka and Hoffa are two of the worst. The members of all unions need more latitude on how their unions are run and where their dues are spent as well as regulation of salaries for the fat-assed leaders.

  • Gringo Infidel

    I guess I just don't get it. Why a union at all any more in the U.S.? I could see it in some third world country where workers are truly abused but not in the U.S.

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