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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."
First off, I recognize that there are times that a union is necessary. Some employers are just dicks.
Having said that, I far prefer -not- being in a union. Most unions take money from the employees and give nothing back except false confidence. (Spare me the individual stories of how a union worked for you.)
As to the government giving special help to promote unions... Cripes. If the union is a good idea, it'll form. If it's not, it does -not- need help.
But I guess everything else has gotten a bailout, why not help unions, too?
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
I am really excited about Democrats abolishing the secret ballot for union organizing.
This way, more parts of the US economy can benefit from sound, productivity-enhancing organizations like the Teamsters and the UAW!
Hopefully, the president-elect can rapidly appoint a "card-check" Tsar to oversee the transfer of all US elections to a more community-oriented "card-check" model. "Secret ballots" after all, have turned out to frequently be an obstacle to Progress.
I also find it odd that so many americans find the very idea (of workers gathering together to form a stronger position for bargaining with employers) somehow offensive.
It's because we've been brainwashed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and whatsername, that blonde bimbo neocon troll. Here, the coropration rules. The corporation's money determines who gets elected.
The corporates spoon-feed us classist propaganda, such as "black people are poor because they're black" and we believe the tripe despite its obviously unreasonable illogic. We live in a society where a poor man can go to prison for stealing a candy bar, while a rich man can get away with murder.
Unlike you enlightened folks on the other side of the pond, we don't live in a democracy. We live in a plutocracy where money is the only grantor of freedom and money is the only thing of value.
Some of us envy you.
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Precisely. Unions have a long term interest in the money, the executives often have a mid term interest in the money.
For those of you who don't know, when the price of stocks you own goes up, you don't make money. You don't make any money on said stocks until you sell them. Which is why execs have interest in them: stock price |^| == money |^|