The WIKI article was more indepth than the videos you linked which was a bunch of bullshit. He was paid to say he was a union buster but he gave no information regarding his efforts.
LOL nice try… /golfclap
Rights don’t come from Nature. They come from the society that we humans build, either when they are given or (more frequently) when they are demanded, exercised, fought for, and then given.
Blocking access to a workplace can be done without setting one foot on company property, and done defensively. So while your scenario is plausible, it’s not inevitable.
Those videos are a joke. He says nothing on them.
And you have yet to provide a logical argument for giving up voting privacy. I have given personal examples of intimidation as have others. This intimidation is something that can be practiced by unions, companies and other employees. There is no justification whatsoever for giving up this privacy.
People who truly want a union have access to union facilities which can prevent a company from stepping one foot in.
So those 53% of non-unionized workers I’ve cited numerous times don’t really want a union because they don’t have representation by now?
LOL Repeating yourself doesn’t make you right.
It’s unclear to me how you would block access to a company without violating some sort of law. Perhaps you can enlighten me.
It is a sad and dangerous time ahead for the American workers. A couple decades ago the newspapers successfully killed unions. Now kids grow up and never hear a positive story about unions . I meet young guys in their 20s who hate unions and can not say why. They just know that they can get validation almost anywhere.
It has been well planned and carried out . Unions are almost gone now. Their political power is diminished. American workers will learn the cold hard facts soon enough.
No single worker has any power. Every worker can be replaced. They can tell you what they want to pay and what benefits they feel like giving. They can take them away at will. If that is a better world to you enjoy it. I feel sorry for our future.
Companies moved off shore to get away from,higher wages,pollution control and safety rules etc. They wanted to have the conditions that existed in America before unions. They got them. It is a great future for us. It is exploitation for the Chinese and Indonesian workers. Child labor is having a big comeback. That is correct. Companies should be able to do whatever they want.
A union hall would be private property. They can deny access to anyone they want.
Yes, that’s true. I don’t see the relevance though.
The reality of the situation is simple. After WWII the United States retained half the world’s production facilities and subsequently half the wealth. Those days are gone. Nothing short of tariffs will prevent competition from adjusting wages on a worldwide basis.
People speak as if the absence of unions is a defacto negative. It’s not. Unions cannot tap into wealth that is not there and any concessions made have to cover the cost of the union. In the absence of this wealth they are an inefficient use of labor/wages. For all practical purposes, the UAW and related auto unions have ruined my city. Their contracts are so bloated, and the workers so protected, that it’s not profitable to operate the business. It’s nice that some of the workers get a $100,000 buyout but the empty building leaves no legacy to future workers. This is in contrast to towns that are getting new production facilities from foreign companies. Volkswagen is investing a billion dollars in Tennessee. For perspective, that is approximately half the entire value of GM today.
Standing or sitting down outside the company entrance and locking arms, for example. They’re not on company property, thus no trespass; they’re not using force or violence, thus no assault and/or battery. It was a tactic often used by strikers in Decatur, Illinois during the mid-90s and was met by police wielding batons and pepper spray.
This reminds me of something I’ve been wondering about. On an episode of House, there is a strike going on. One of the strikers claims that she has a legal right to detain a delivery driver from entering the workplace for 15 seconds. Is that actually true or just something they made up for the show?
Has the massive income gap noted last year collapsed completely, then? The wealth is there, and it’s there in greater amounts than any time since the Depression, if not before. And it’s there precisely because unions have taken such a beating over the last 30 years and been forced to give back in both good times and bad.
No idea;Bo might be better able to answer that specific question. What is illegal, however - at least in “right to work” states - is the delivery driver’s right to refuse to enter a workplace being struck as an act of solidarity, or his union’s right to ask its entire membership to do the same.
Intentionally blocking access to a public thoroughfare is Disorderly Conduct, and is illegal in nearly every, if not all, jurisdictions in the United States.
Ah, but the thoroughfare isn’t public if it’s company property, is it?
Either they are on company property blocking access, which is trespassing, or they are on a public thoroughfare blocking access, which is disorderly conduct.
I spoke with someone at the NLRB, and learned a few interesting things.
Once a card check (minimum 30% of workers indicating they would like to be unionized) and a petition are filed with the NLRB, assuming there is no contention from the employer (which would delay this process; this is best-case-scenario, okay?), the employer has 7 days to provide an excelsior list: a list of people who are eligible to be part of the bargaining unit. This prevents people with the wrong job, supervisory duties, etc. from being part of the bargaining unit. That list is then shared with the prospective union, so that they can also contact workers.
Then both sides, union and employer, decide on a date for the election. There must be 3 days notice that an election will take place, but it must take place before 42 days have passed.
After the election, it takes 10 days for the NLRB to certify the results.
Best case scenario, if both sides agree to it, and the employer provides the excelsior list immediately, an election could take place roughly a 4-5 days after a petition is filed.
If the employer is slow with the excelsior list (7 days), the election could theoretically take place 10 days or so after filing.
Obviously, if an employer fights everything, and hearings are needed, this could drag out over months. The EFCA would not change an employers right to contest card validity or eligibility of workers for the CBU, which result in hearings with the NLRB.
I’m not aware of any tactics the union has to delay the vote, nor am I able to discern a good reason for a union wanting to delay a vote. The union has no way to force the vote to happen faster; they must allow the NLRB to go thru the hearing process(es) before an election can be scheduled.
There’s a lot more at work in this process than most of us, both sides, seem to have known. It still looks like an uphill battle for the union, often with rocks plunging down the hill at irregular intervals, to me. YMMV.