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Unions banking on “card-check” in Obama’s second term

Tue, 11/06/2012
by Jason Pye

Big Labor had high-hopes for President Barack Obama. On their wishlist was the misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act,” also known as “card-check,” which would likely bolster their ranks by removing worker protections, allowing organizers to bully them into signing off on forming a union.

Legislation was introduced in both chambers, but never made it out of committee, despite Democrats holding sizeable majorities.Republicans managed to take the House in the 2010 mid-term election, stalling any hope unions had of pushing the bill through Congress, which became a sore spot for union leaders.

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Unions banking on "card-check" in Obama's second term | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government
 
Union membership has steadily declined for decades, along with middle class incomes in the U.S.

So I don't see any reason for your concern.
 
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Why Unionized Auto Workers Have The Election Day Off And You Don’t

Micheline Maynard
11/6/12

Politico thought it got itself a scoop this morning, when it reported that Chrysler was giving its workers the day off to vote.

"The car company that attacked Mitt Romney for falsely claiming it was moving operations overseas is going a step further, ostensibly for President Obama," Politico declared.

Then, Chrysler's Ralph Gilles muddled up the situation further when he tweeted, "Chrysler gave its entire workforce the day off to Vote Today! Let's Go! #America"

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Why Unionized Auto Workers Have The Election Day Off And You Don't
 
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Why Unionized Auto Workers Have The Election Day Off And You Don’t

Micheline Maynard
11/6/12

Politico thought it got itself a scoop this morning, when it reported that Chrysler was giving its workers the day off to vote.

"The car company that attacked Mitt Romney for falsely claiming it was moving operations overseas is going a step further, ostensibly for President Obama," Politico declared.

Then, Chrysler's Ralph Gilles muddled up the situation further when he tweeted, "Chrysler gave its entire workforce the day off to Vote Today! Let's Go! #America"

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Why Unionized Auto Workers Have The Election Day Off And You Don't

It looks like "your employer" has no respect for democracy, then.
 
What union support of Obamacare may mean for dentistry

By William T. Brown, DDS,
DrBicuspid.com contributing writer
October 24, 2012

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The unions' agenda

First they would move private medical practices into large hospitals. Once healthcare workers are employed by hospitals, they can be unionized as private hospital workers as government employees if they work for government hospitals. This plan is already moving forward; for example, by next year only 33% of medical doctors will be in private practice, down from 57% in 2000.

Next on the unions' agenda is to use a new organizing model to unionize self-employed people, including the remaining healthcare workers in private practice. Mallory writes:

Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and other government employee unions have tested out this organizing model on health care providers and in-home child care providers over the last decade. These providers are partially or fully paid from government programs that subsidize the cost of their client's care. The unions' allies in state government use the fact that these individuals receive payments under government programs to treat them as 'government employees' who can be unionized.
According to Mallory, Obamacare legislation dramatically increases the number of healthcare workers receiving payment for their services under a government program. He continues with a scenario in which the government employee unions can enlist pro-union state governments to treat these healthcare workers as "government employees" and unionize them just as they unionized the care providers.

He believes that as we move closer to a single-payor system, many more healthcare workers will be compensated through government programs. He thinks that eventually virtually all healthcare workers ("except Park Avenue plastic surgeons") will receive at least part of their compensation from a government payor, which transmutes into the status of a "government employee."

99% of U.S. dental practices have 50 or fewer employees.

What's in this plan for the unions is huge. For every million additional healthcare workers unionized in the 27 non-right-to-work states, the unions stand to earn a billion dollars in dues.

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Labor seeks more liberal, pro-union agenda after helping Obama win battleground states

by: SAM HANANEL
November 10, 2012


WASHINGTON - After two years of getting pummeled in Wisconsin, Indiana and other battleground states, leaders of the nation's big labor unions were beaming on election night.

Labor's massive voter turnout effort played a major role in helping President Barack Obama win Ohio, Nevada and Wisconsin, according to exit polls, and its leaders are now looking for a more liberal, pro-union agenda from the White House.

"There are things the president can do, and we'll be expecting that leadership from President Obama," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters after the election.

Topping labor's wish list — for now — is a push to raise taxes on wealthy Americans and discouraging Obama from agreeing to any deal with Republicans over the looming "fiscal cliff" that cuts into Social Security and Medicare.

But unions are also pressing for new measures that might help boost their sagging membership rolls. New investment in infrastructure would bring construction jobs for trade unions. Immigration reform — and a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented Latino immigrants — would create a vast new pool of potential union members. And new regulations could remove some obstacles to union organizing.

Business groups that have vigorously opposed efforts to help unions draw new members say they will keep playing defense.

"My primary concern is in the regulations," said Randel Johnson, vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for labor issues. "We are afraid that on employment issues, the administration will stay firmly to the left and follow the lead of the unions."

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An analysis by the Sunlight Foundation, which tracks money in politics, found that unions and other Democratic-leaning groups were far more successful than outside conservative groups in targeting money toward winning House and Senate campaigns. The SEIU spent more than 70 percent of its funds on winners, for example, while Karl Rove's American Crossroads and its nonprofit affiliate had only a 6 percent success rate.


In addition to measures that may help increase union numbers, labor leaders are also expecting the Obama administration to issue more regulations targeting workplace safety. Proposed rules to protect workers from cancer-causing and lung-damaging silica, often found in the dust at construction sites and glass manufacturing operations, have languished at the White House for more than a year. The administration also has delayed new standards for combustible dust that can cause explosions.

Business groups have opposed the regulations, saying they overreach and would raise employers' costs by millions of dollars.

Labor seeks more liberal, pro-union agenda after helping Obama win battleground states | StarTribune.com
 
The End of Twinkies' Union Label

11/20/12
By Christopher Chantrill


A couple of months ago, during the Chicago teachers' strike, I mildly suggested that the trouble with unions is that they are all on a journey that can end only in tears. If employees declare war on their employer, then the war can end only in the death of one or the other.

And who wants that? The union bakers -- the union former bakers -- at Hostess Brands, Inc., that's who.

Really, as the Greek philosopher George Maroutsos used to say, I should pay for the opportunity to write about this.

The union leaders up in Maine are spinning the end of Twinkies as a glorious victory:

"I think we're the first ones who have stood up and said, 'We're not going to let you get away with it,'" said Sue Tapley, the strike captain on hand Friday morning at the Biddeford plant, which employed nearly 600 people. "You can fight them. You can shut them down."

This is the union equivalent of the patriotic cult of the Fallen. Yes, your son got killed in the Battle of the Bulge, but his sacrifice was not in vain, and we will never forget his sacrifice.

So when do we celebrate our victory parade, my union friends? When all the corporations and all the jobs in the world have been destroyed?

But let us give the union faithful the benefit of the doubt. After all, capitalism is one up on humans; it started with not one, but two Original Sins. The first one was plantation slavery, invented by Venetian merchants right after the Crusades. The second one was the factory system, modeled, intentionally or not, after the gang system on the slave plantations. See here for the gory details.

To take care of the slavery thing, the Quakers of Pennsylvania started the anti-slavery movement, and the world is now a better place.

But to oppose the evils of the factory system, the workers converted the old medieval guild system into the labor union, and the Napoleonic War baby boomers invented socialism. How's that hopey-changey stuff workin' out for yer?

Something is wrong with ideas that created the worst slave states in human history, and something is wrong with a movement that, in 2012, counts it a victory to destroy an employer at the cost of its members losing all their good jobs at good wages.

Like I said, union workers hate their jobs. That is why they are willing to destroy their jobs in order to save them.

But what, at last, are we going to do about it? After all, the Marxists figured it out 160 years ago. The problem was that the "system" alienated everyone -- workers and employers. Thomas Sowell from his Marxism:

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What is needed is a return to trust. Humans are actually quite good at trust; that's why it takes a politician or a union leader to turn trust into suspicion.

That's what went wrong with the folks at Hostess: no trust. Workers just fired management, and management just fired the workers. Of course they did. Suspicion is everything in a unionized workplace; nobody trusts anyone. In the end you get the death of the union or the death of the corporation, or both.

Government is force; politics is division; unions are suspicion. Politicians and union leaders exist to break up trust networks and sow us-and-them mistrust. It's up to us to stop them, before they force, divide, and suspect again.

How about those negative ads, eh, Barack?


Read more: Articles: The End of Twinkies' Union Label
 
Big Labor, ‘looking for revenge,’ expects to dump $300 million into 2014 elections

By M.D. Kittle / February 24, 2014

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[Did you know, Richard Trumka is a one percenter ---> 1%]

Big Labor pledges it will go all in, again, in its drive to knock out its top political adversaries in 2014.

And one of the biggest targets is Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, hero to conservatives, bane of the left for his public-sector collective bargaining reforms.

Michael Podhorzer, political director of the AFL-CIO, in a New York Times piece last week said the nation’s labor unions look to spend at least $300 million going after Republicans in this fall’s elections.

Much of that spending is expected to be dropped on four industrial battlegrounds — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, traditional union strongholds. Big Labor also wants Florida.

“Their hope is to not only oust the Republican governors of those states, but also to flip several of the legislative chambers. In all five states the Republicans control both houses,” the Times piece notes.

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“Snyder, who signed a Right to Work bill in 2012, is sure to be the most important target for AFL-CIO union officials who have million(s) of forced-dues dollars to spend on the 2014 elections,” ILRR stated.

Big Labor, 'looking for revenge,' expects to dump $300 million into 2014 elections « Watchdog.org
 
Northwestern players get union vote

Updated: March 27, 2014, 1:14 AM ET
By Brian Bennett | ESPN.com

In a potentially game-changing moment for college athletics, the Chicago district of the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Wednesday that Northwestern football players qualify as employees of the university and can unionize.

NLRB regional director Peter Sung Ohr cited the players' time commitment to their sport and the fact that their scholarships were tied directly to their performance on the field as reasons for granting them union rights.

Ohr wrote in his ruling that the players "fall squarely within the [National Labor Relations] Act's broad definition of 'employee' when one considers the common law definition of 'employee.'"

Ohr ruled that the players can hold a vote on whether they want to be represented by the College Athletes Players Association, which brought the case to the NLRB along with former Wildcats quarterback Kain Colter and the United Steelworkers union.

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Northwestern Wildcats football players win bid to unionize - ESPN
 

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