Posted on 07/03/2011 2:23:10 AM PDT by bobk333
Labor leaders bet big on an Obama victory in 2008, hoping Congress would enact, and the Democratic president would sign, "card-check" -- legislation designed to turn around labor's sagging membership rolls by ending secret-ballot elections in organizing drives. But card-check has never been able to pass the Senate -- not even when Democrats took over Congress in 2006. Instead, presidential appointees friendly to labor are deploying agency muscle.
The latest example is taking place largely out of sight -- at the National Mediation Board, a little known agency that oversees union elections for railroads and airlines. Late in 2010, flight attendants for the nonunion Delta and its unionized Northwest Airlines (acquired in a 2008 merger) voted thumbs down on joining the Association of Flight Attendants. The board -- where two of the three members are former top union officials -- reacted by investigating Delta for "interference" in the election, prompted by union claims that the company circulated too much literature.
Another vote is likely to follow, even though this was the third time Delta flight attendants had rejected the union. And here's another twist: The union lost that November vote even after the NMB changed the rules -- in place since the 1930s -- to require that only a majority of those who vote, not a majority of the workplace, needs to sign off on unionization.
"They voted under new rules that the unions asked for," Delta CEO Richard Anderson told Fortune via email. "They've done everything asked of them. And because they said no to union representation, their decisions aren't being respected; they're being held hostage."
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Organized labor is organized crime with with government protection.
Non public sector union membership is 6.9% and falling. The war is over and the unions lost. This is the main reason why we don't have inflation right now. In the 70% much of the stagflation was caused by the unions, not so now.
Organized labor is organized crime with with government protection.
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Back in the ‘50s they were necessary. But, gradually through the years, they have become exactly as you stated. As a dumb, 18 y.o. kid in 1965, when sweepers at GM were making 4.65 an hour (big bucks in 1965), I said then that the Labor Unions would one day ruin the American Economy.
Anytime I see a thread with the two words “Obama’s ..... problem”, it gets my attention. I want him to have so many problems he decides not to run in 2012. But, that will never happened. He hasn’t totally destroyed this nation yet. He’s gotta complete his mission.
Now the in fighting starts with the union leaders and they will be a lot of Jimmy Hoffa events.
For now they settle for expanding the reach of public employee unions which, frankly, do not need the check-and-balance private employees benefitted from in unions heyday.
Wow. Don't like the vote outcome? Change the rules of the game and force a it to be replayed over and over until you get your way.
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