Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing

cedarhillbilly passes along a piece from TheHill.com on the chilly reception that tech firms and lobbying groups are giving to a bill promoting union formation, which has a chance of passing in a more strongly Democratic congress and with a Democratic president. "Up to now, large tech groups have been on the sidelines in what is likely to be one of the roughest fights in Congress next year. A few, however, are preparing to weigh in. That makes other tech lobbyists nervous that, by doing so, the industry could sacrifice relatively good relationships with Democrats and, therefore, jeopardize some of their other legislative priorities."

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Re:Management vs Labor

[knewter]

bullshit

Re:heh

[nickmalthus]

I too pity the people posting here that are so rabidly anti union. One could easily mistake them for communists and fascists who's first acts in power were to abolish labor unions. Perhaps they don't fully realize that the same executives they server under sign labor contracts that outline benefits and termination clauses. If labor contracts are good enough for executives, why shouldn't organized labor sign them? Perhaps communists China is the utopia many of the anti-union poster would like to live in. In communist China there are no real unions and labor and environmental regulations are set by the market (i.e. practically non existent). As labor union membership declined so did the wages in the markets they were involved in. Do we really need to regress back to the guilded age before people wake up and see the value of unions and labor laws?