Make Democracy Work Again: mandate cert/recert/decert union elections
Dennis Drew discussing labor and why the US does not have more union labor.
Higher minimum wage — bunk! Unions systemically squeeze out the maximum price consumers are willing to pay for their labor.
Any lower price should be taken as a unionless discount — I wish I could make up an “official sounding” term for this — start a whole new theory.
We can have all the universal health care, child tax credit, whatever you want. As long as we suffer “the discount” the rest will always be hollow.
Europe may have the same union organizing rules we have, but they have a social convention to obey the rules. Our rules may as well not exist — walking all over them the long-held tradition.
So, Mandate Union Cert Elections at Every Private Workplace.
I think the only reason we haven’t done so is social instinct — we are so used to our ass backwards, anti-organizing structure that we think (feel) it is the only way life can be. Further, if you suggest a mandate it is — irony of ironies — dismissed out of hand because it seems impossible that the world could be so completely turned around so quickly and so easily.
Why Not Hold Union Representation Elections on a Regular Schedule? OnLabor
Chapter and verse of Republican ideology — seemingly ready to turn the world inside-out. Weave it through and through-out the federal budget. It all boils down to; shave 10% off spending. If we waited for 10 years and for 20% more per capita economic growth, the Republicans would still be for cutting the same 10^% — still imagining they would be turning the world inside-out.
Watched news report tonight that the Trump seems to be using Fox News to fill in so many hiring slots at all levels that you might think Fox was taking over the administration (or the country). Fox News is owned by a citizen of a foreign country and not any kind of “hands off” owner — immersed deeply as could possibly be in American politics.
“Fox News is owned by a citizen of a foreign country”
If this is a reference to Rupert Murdoch, he’s been a naturalized US citizen since 1985. Don’t buy into Trump’s meme that naturalized citizens are not real citizens.
Look, I have only contempt for Murdoch and Fox and how they’ve poisoned discourse in America with their fear mongering. But that doesn’t mean I support lying about Murdoch.
Thanks for the heads up.
Murdoch is 94, and his kids are getting ready to get their British hands on his world wide empire. I wonder what they have planned for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It all bears looking into.
Rupert Murdock
As of 2023 Murdoch owns homes in Sydney, Aspen, and Los Angeles. His wife and children have lived in Sydney since 2021, and Lachlan splits his time between there, Los Angeles (location of Fox Corp. HQ), and New York City, where News Corp is headquartered. He speaks with an American accent but considers Australia to be his home. (added)
@Denis,
I haven’t seen anywhere that Murdoch renounced his US citizenship. Have you?
His may be more of a citizenship of convenience than his “American Dream.” Not that he wouldn’t be conscientious. But I don’t think that a skeleton crew from an Australian to Briton propaganda machine should be running the heart of American democracy.
Some things want a motive purity safeguard — like the president natural born.
Would the NLRA as amended pre-empt a state from creating a regular, say every 5 years, certification ( new union, same union, different union or no union) election for employees to make their dccision? Would a state be limited to intrastate enterprises?
Unfortunately, states have no legal role at all in setting up union certification in the private sector.
To my mind a federal political issue to mandate cert votes at all private businesses would spread across the country like wildfire. 50% of private workers want a union — only 6% have one. What could Republicans say in opposition? Good bye GOP to the Obama/Trump voters — welcome home …
… to a party that’s going to restore your economic and political powers FOR REAL.
Good bye GOP to your razor thing majority in the House that you thought the Idiot was going to force you to take a wrecking ball to America with.
Unfortunately, states have no legal role at all in setting up union certification in the private sector.
To my mind a federal political issue to mandate cert votes at all private businesses would spread across the country like wildfire. 50% of private workers want a union — only 6% have one. What could Republicans say in opposition? Good bye GOP to the Obama/Trump voters — welcome home …
… to a party that’s going to restore your economic and political powers FOR REAL.
Good bye GOP to your razor thing majority in the House that you thought the Idiot was going to force you to take a wrecking ball to America with.