{"id":12346,"date":"2014-03-12T00:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12346"},"modified":"2014-03-12T00:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T07:39:02","slug":"more-republican-war-on-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/more-republican-war-on-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"More Republican War on Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I could have entitled this the Republican War on the Constitution, because that is the tactic Republicans in several states are using do deny workers their freedom of speech and their freedom of assembly.  Republicans want to make certain that, when workers have grievances, there is no inconvenience to the companies, and that YOU don\u2019t get to see it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0312GOPWar\"In moves that pro-labor legal scholars warn may violate the U.S. Constitution, Mississippi, Michigan and Tennessee Republicans have introduced bills that would strengthen the hands of bosses faced with protesting employees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe language is so broad, the potential is so destructive, that what they\u2019re basically doing is outlawing strikes \u2026\u201d University of Texas labor law professor Julius Getman told Salon. \u201cOr they\u2019re doing their best to limit strikes or picketing to situations where you have two or three people standing still. The idea of the union manifesting concerted power of workers is something that they\u2019re seeking to prohibit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have a right to free speech, but they don\u2019t have a right to keep someone from going to work,\u201d countered state Rep. Jeremy Durham, who introduced that state\u2019s anti-picketing bill.<\/p>\n

All three state bills would lower the bar for businesses to seek and secure judicial injunctions against labor picketing<\/strong> \u2013 a form of protest long used by workers seeking to dissuade customers or strikebreakers, attract reporters or supporters, and spotlight alleged abuses. In addition to changing injunction rules, the proposal in Mississippi\u2019s House would<\/a> ban picketing that \u201chas or intends the effect of violence or intimidation, near or contiguous to the business\u2019 customers\u201d; Tennessee\u2019s would<\/a> ban picketing that is \u201cpreventing the pursuit of any lawful work or employment by means of disturbance or nuisance.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a private home (say, a CEO\u2019s mansion), Mississippi\u2019s and Tennessee\u2019s bills would make disrupting \u201cthe resident\u2019s right to quiet enjoyment\u201d grounds for convicting picketers of a crime<\/strong>. The bill in Michigan\u2019s House would<\/a> remove current language making certain picketing a misdemeanor, but add language imposing a $1,000 a day fine for a person (including an individual protesting worker, not just an organization or a union official) repeatedly found to have picketed illegally. And the bill passed by Mississippi\u2019s Senate would allow an individual picketer to be thrown in jail for six months\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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These are the very same Republicans, who insisted that it was their Constitutional right to physically accost women seeking abortion services and threaten bodily harm to abortion providers at their homes.<\/font><\/p>\n

I remember how Republicans in Congress used to wave little paper Constitutions, while falsely claiming that they are supporting it.  In reality, they would trash the Constitution for the 0.1%<\/font><\/p>\n

Support Labor against these injustices!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could have entitled this the Republican War on the Constitution, because that is the tactic Republicans in several states are using do deny workers their freedom of speech and their freedom of assembly.  Republicans want to make certain that, when workers have grievances, there is no inconvenience to the companies, and that YOU don\u2019t […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}