We don't need no steenking check cards!.............
Posted on 11/14/2008 11:36:21 AM PST by Fred
Labor unions are poised to go after Hispanic workers in states like Arizona and sectors such as services and health care if new union rules are put in place by the Barack Obama administration and Democratic Congress next year.
Unions and pro-union Democrats want Congress and Obama to pass card-check legislation. The plan would allow unions to organize in workplaces if they get a majority of workers to sign cards supporting unionization. It would scrap 73-year-old unionization laws that require secret ballots for workers to decide whether they want their work forces represented by a trade union.
Card-check legislation is a top goal of unions such as the Service Employees International Union and AFL-CIO, who were top Obama backers.
Such plans have been blocked by President Bush, and the Republicans have enough votes to impede card-check in the U.S. Senate.
In January, Obama takes the Oval Office and Democrats have more votes in the U.S. Senate.
Nate Niemuth, a partner and employment law expert with Phoenix law firm Ryley Carlock & Applewhite PA, said unions would like to sign up more Hispanic workers and unionize health care and service industries that are somewhat new to labor organizations.
“If passed, it will have a very dramatic impact,” said Niemuth.
Union members account for 12 percent of the U.S. work force, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The lowest level of unionization is among Hispanics, who have only 9.8 percent of Latino workers in unions and only 9.6 percent of Hispanic women.
Unionized workers also tend to be Democrats, and the card-check measure could help the party align more with Latinos. Hispanics largely supported Obama in this month’s election over U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., helping the Illinois lawmaker carry states such as New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada. The focus on the economy and Republican tendencies to take hard-right stances on immigration hurt McCain with Latino voters this cycle after George W. Bush made inroads with Hispanics in 2004.
Business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry, worry about the card-check bill becoming law.
Unions and advocacy groups called American Rights at Work are lobbying Congress to move on the card-check legislation quickly next year. The American Rights group is a coalition that includes the AFL-CIO, National Council of La Raza, NAACP and former senator John Edwards.
Its chair is former Michigan congressman David Bonior. Bonior is said to be on Obama’s short-list along with pro-labor former Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt for U.S. Labor Secretary.
Jon Pettibone, partner with the law firm Quarles & Brady LLP, said card-check critics worry that union organizers will pressure rank-and-file workers to sign cards. He also said the card-check bill would impose tougher penalties on businesses caught commiting unfair labor practices.
Card-check advocates counter that businesses also pressured workers not to unionize in the run-up to secret ballot elections.
The issue could create some political quandaries for Obama and Democratic lawmakers in states like Arizona.
“A key test issue for President Obama and an emboldened Democratic Congress is whether to risk an early party split over union-backed check-card legislation. Democrats in Arizona’s congressional delegation and many in ‘red’ districts across the nation may not want to be forced to choose between their constituents’ interests and those of big labor,” said Farrell Quinlan, president of In the Arena Public Affairs, a Phoenix-based lobbying and consulting firm.
U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell, Ann Kirkpatrick and Gabrielle Giffords, are Democrats headed into their first or second terms in districts previously held by Republicans. The trio was backed by labor unions in the 2008 campaign, though Mitchell has taken some pro-business stances such as opposing increased capital gains and dividends taxes.
The socialists will bow to the unions — more votes and power for them. That is all that matters.
So now the illegals won’t even be cheap?
We don't need no steenking check cards!.............
The return of Jimmy Hoffa?
The future for the AFL and the UAW is in the South, and those factires are UNION FREE...
They do not WANT to organized, and the only way they can be turned that way is through FORCE AND INTIMIDATION.
And to the Democrats, that means HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in New “support”. So which way do you think this is going to go?D
You are correct. Socialism is the New World Order.
SEIU- from it’s inception as a janitor’s union, has been more than willing to push for illegal intruders to be hired.
They hve now inserted themselves into the health care area- hospitals, clinics- and the like, and they are a rapidly growing cancer on American business.
They were the organozers of the Mexicans protesting in downtown Los Angeles a couple of years ago- saying they were here to stay and we had to put up with it.
Kalifornia is in the toilet- We don’t need this to spread nationwide.
Wish someone would flush it.
Well, the unions had such a great impact on the auto industry, might as well see how many other industries they can help send to an early death.
I always wondered how unskilled workers could sustain a union since the cost of replacing such workers is low.
Time for all small business owners to review who is working for them and who needs to be sent down the road.
More of those businesses have been infiltrated than we will ever know.
Cut back- to the origins of your business-—even if it means working out of your house.
Got a kid in college? Turn their room into a home office- put in a day bed/convertible couch for when they visit home, and cut your expenses to the bone.
Survive with your business- don’t become fish food for the pirahnas.
Oh, yeah. The hotels and motels are going to thrive under unionization.
Does this mean Walmart is leaving the country?
Personally I hope they succeed. Once the illegals are all union guys the business owners who are violating the laws won't have any reason to do so anymore. What would be the point?
So by all means union-up, Jose. Soon, that way you can be headed home for Christmas.
We had union infiltrators try to get in the door since the 60’s. Fortunately our employees are still resisting but it could be just a matter of time, God forbid.
We had a business that was taken down by the unions - the very people who had their hands around our throats and were squeezing were the same ones who sent us bad workers and then wouldn’t even enforce their contracts with the people who were our customers. So our customers went against their contracts and hired companies with non-union help (CHEAPER) and the workers weren’t so arrogant, and we had to compete with this. We finally decided if we couldn’t get rid of the unions it wasn’t worth it. They “won”.
Our new business has no regular employees except one - everyone else is on a 1099. We’ll never be union. It’s heaven!!!!
“Hilarious that “hispanic” is a code word for “illegals”. They can’t even bring themselves to say it.”
The legal American Hispanics are going.... WHAT?
I predicted this before the election by the rank and file are too dumb to figure it out. Illegal aliens will replace American union workers. The illegals will give away more dues and will be even more passive.
I once heard this from some stupid American Dem in the carpenter union.
“No one down at the union hall speaks English anymore and I am not gettin any work.”
SEIU = ACORN. Same Ayer’s pal founded them - Wade Rathke or something.
SEIU is the illegal alien union.
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