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‘Right to Work’ Is a Cynical Power Grab
AFL-CIO ^ | February 23, 2018 | Stan Sorscher

Posted on 02/24/2018 2:58:19 PM PST by mdittmar

The effort to expand cynically named "right to work" laws says a lot about what is wrong with politics in our country. Disguised as protecting workers, the real goal is to silence workers’ voice, reduce our bargaining power and make our jobs more precarious. It’s about power—social, political and economic power.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afge; aflcio; afscme; aft; biglabor; nea
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To: Redwood71

The phrase doesn’t refer to some right to a job, but the right to contract to supply or consume labor without compulsory unionization.


21 posted on 02/24/2018 3:39:58 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: mdittmar

Other than the heading of “know thy enemy” why are we regularly treated to these union press releases? Their takes are highly predictable and uniformly anti-conservative. Why waste JimRob’s bandwidth?


22 posted on 02/24/2018 3:40:41 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: mdittmar

I met Trumka once in Detroit. Every word regarding right to work laws was a lie.

I had to go to my hotel room and take a shower.

(circa 2000).

5.56mm


23 posted on 02/24/2018 3:41:13 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Pollster1

I was offered a ‘regulated’ job at the General Dynamics F-16 fighter factory in Fort Worth. Never regretted for a single moment saying ‘no.’


24 posted on 02/24/2018 3:42:45 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: OrangeHoof

I’ll let JimRob decide that.


25 posted on 02/24/2018 3:43:17 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

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AFL-CIO crime syndicate?
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26 posted on 02/24/2018 3:44:34 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mdittmar

the ACLU-CIO needs to get out of our government, city and county buildings.


27 posted on 02/24/2018 3:44:38 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: heterosupremacist
I've been a hiring manager for most of my career. I can confirm that good help is hard to find these days and good employees that come to work with positive "can-do" attitudes and a decent work ethic have nothing to worry about with "right-to-work." They will also be able to negotiate raises and promotions on their own merit. They won't have any need of pinky-ringed union plug-uglies "representing" them. Or government regulation either.

The primary purpose of my job is to find and RETAIN good people! The myth that bosses are out to tyrannize good employees and look for ways to get them fired is utterly untrue. If you work for a company that does not feel that way, then you are working for the wrong company! When we have good employees, the company tends to do very well.

Now if you are a negative, complaining loudmouth who bangs in sick all the time, shows up late and has little or no pride in what you are doing, then you might want to consider working for a "union" type job where your "rights" are protected.

28 posted on 02/24/2018 3:45:49 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Pollster1

Place I used to work for had a lot of union workers who held a strike every decade or so. The goons would do things like drop bowling balls from the overpass onto cars in the parking lot. Guys you saw every working day turned into psychos during strikes. Means they were psychos the whole time.


29 posted on 02/24/2018 3:46:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: mdittmar

You gotta understand, the AFL-CIO isn’t “about power—social, political and economic power.”

Or so they’d have you believe.


30 posted on 02/24/2018 3:46:33 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: heterosupremacist

” Am I mistaken? All replies welcome and encouraged... “

Yes and no. It’s about the company making money while keeping the best trained and able to do the job. Those that do a great job get rewarded. Those that don’t go on probation and if it doesn’t change they get someone who can do the job. Benefits are usually the same.

Non-union labor will do the work better than union labor. They will receive more raises and bonuses for meeting production quotas. And they will do it with quality in mind, because the better job they do, the more money the company makes. There is a synergy there that doesn’t exist in a union shop.


31 posted on 02/24/2018 3:47:44 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: 5th MEB

5th MEB ~

I was also at one time SEIU [32B] in NYC & they took my money for nothing, for almost five years.

I got canned for being the only Irish American who could not bribe, nor speak in Español, whilst being surrounded by Dominicans and Puerto Ricans...

Racist, corrupt, turds. (IMO)


32 posted on 02/24/2018 3:47:44 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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SamAdams76 ~ Excellent reply!


33 posted on 02/24/2018 3:50:30 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: mdittmar

http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/after-64-years-still-paying-the-price-for-taft-hartley/

“required that all union officials pledge that they were not communists. (This part of the law was ruled unconstitutional in 1965.)”

Those were the days, now communist party membership (Democrat) is mandatory.


34 posted on 02/24/2018 3:50:35 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: heterosupremacist
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The right to work without having to support world wide Marxism with our hard earned pay.

No bargaining power is reduced by not having to pay your opposition for the “privilege” to work.

35 posted on 02/24/2018 3:51:07 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: mdittmar

http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2016/06/weac-membership-has-fallen-by-58-percent-since-2011/


36 posted on 02/24/2018 3:52:30 PM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: heterosupremacist

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SEIU is the American KGB.
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37 posted on 02/24/2018 3:53:30 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: M Kehoe

I met Trumka in the waiting room at a garage in Saint Albans WV where my car was being repaired in roughly 1982. He was making the rounds shaking the hands of people working there and in the waiting room. At the time I was home visiting my parents and was having some car trouble, hence the garage visit. Even though he was running for UMM Prez at the time he clearly had larger union ambitions.


38 posted on 02/24/2018 3:53:53 PM PST by Reily
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To: editor-surveyor

editor-surveyor wrote:

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SEIU is the American KGB.
I see what you mean.


39 posted on 02/24/2018 3:54:42 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: mdittmar

Pretty much textbook for the Left to accuse its opponents of what they themselves are doing.


40 posted on 02/24/2018 3:57:30 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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