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Cheney Assault on Employee Free Choice: A Family Affair
As we noted last week, Dick Cheney did workers everywhere a favor by lending his massive unpopularity to the campaign against the freedom to form unions. You couldn’t pick a better symbol of the enemies of the Employee Free Choice Act than a discredited multimillionaire Bush administration villain.
As we’ve noted, even Republican insiders realize the widely loathed former vice president isn’t doing them any favors by keeping a high public profile of late.
But Cheney isn’t the only Cheney getting involved in the fight against workers’ freedom to bargain: His daughter, Mary Cheney, works for “Navigators Global,” a high-priced consulting firm whose clients include “Workplace,” one of the many deceptively named, well-funded corporate front groups behind the disinformation campaign against the Employee Free Choice Act. The work of the misnamed coalition is paid for by such champions of the health and safety workers as Wal-Mart and the Associated Builders and Contractors. (Check out how the consulting firm’s website brags about using “branding” to counteract their corporate funders’ weakness at the grassroots level.)
As the bill gets closer and closer to passage, the line-up of anti-worker, pro-corporate hacks is likely to get louder and better-funded. The law would restore balance to the economy, and that’s causing real panic to spread among Employee Free Choice opponents.
A few examples just in the past few days: The fine folks at Media Matters and Media Matters Action Network are keeping a close eye on the anti-Employee Free Choice smears and falsehoods coming out of the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Randel Johnson of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And Ken Silverstein, writing at Harper’s Magazine, has a great exposé of mega-slime lobbyist and union-basher Rick Berman and how he and his allies are raking in corporate cash while acting as anti-Employee Free Choice commentators.
But a Washington full of Cheneys (eew) can’t change the fact that there’s real momentum out there for labor law that gives workers, not their bosses, the choice about how to form a union. Corporate lobbies and CEOs can dump millions into consultants and ads and shake their little fists, but America’s workers can and will win this fight.
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what if any reason, does rush limbaugh, have to do with any union or labor front, he is already making millions why does he talk so diligantly about this subject, and how do you know of wal-mart doing the same thing trying to knock the union, and what it will do to the future of the american worker.
unclebob86: Are you new to this planet. Go to http://www.walmartwatch.com and see the stories of people thats were terminated by Marx Mart, sorry Wal Mart. They contribute to a $4 billion a year business for union busting. If you really want to know about Wal Mart go work there, after about 30 days tell them you want a union, but before that make sure you have the 1-800 number to your local unemployment office, because that is were you are heading. I understand this is a blog sight, but try to be more educated on the issues.
If there was ever a time for the Employee Free Choice Act, that time is now. Not only is it nearly impossible to form a union without fear and intimidation by employers, but union-busting has grown into a $4 billion a year business in the U.S. alone.
Companies that previously had good relationships with their union employees have been emboldened by weak labor laws. One of those is the McGraw-Hill Companies. Read more at:
http://nabetcwa54.org
Every time I read union officials talking about justice at the workplace makes me sick. How hypocrit!
EFCA: I wish this EFCA backfires the multi-billion-dollar-union-business, and that discrimination laws multiplies times ten their fines to see where the unions will go, or that Obama passes new fines for misrepresentation by unions -there would be no fund to support the avalanche of claims against those union practices. Please, give me a break. The only party to blame unions as they are today are the unions themselves, for their practices, corruption, and behavior…