{"id":5174,"date":"2011-06-22T00:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2011-06-22T00:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:45:21","slug":"republican-leaders-oppress-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/republican-leaders-oppress-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Leaders Oppress Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anytime workers try to unionize, management almost invariably stalls to delay the vote as long as possible to bully, bribe and blackmail.  The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) set in place a new rule to accelerate the process of holding a vote to unionize.  Needless to say, The Republican Party have their panties in a bunch and are having fits.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22labor\"<\/a>Today, the National Labor Relations Board announced a new rule<\/a><\/font> aimed at speeding up the process for union elections, in an attempt to prevent employers from using the various tactics they break out to delay and ultimately undermine unionization drives. According to research by John-Paul Ferguson of Stanford Business School, 35 percent of the time that workers file a petition for a union election, the election does not occur due to the many steps that employers take \u2014 including bringing in anti-union consultants<\/a><\/font> \u2014 to delay elections for weeks, if not years.<\/font><\/p>\n

Currently, the average time between workers filing a petition for an election and the election taking place is 58 days<\/a><\/font>, ample time for employers to engage in coercion and intimidation, or to fire pro-union workers (which happens in 25 percent of union drives<\/a><\/font>). But congressional Republicans \u2014 who are whipped into an uproar by any step that favors workers over corporations \u2014 still screamed bloody murder over the change:<\/font><\/p>\n

HOUSE LABOR COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN JOHN KLINE (R-MN) [Murdoch delinked] \u201curged the [NLRB] to \u2018scrap\u2019 what he called a \u2018reckless\u2019 and \u2018job-destroying agenda.\u201d \u201cNot only will this misguided proposal to expedite union elections undermine an employer\u2019s lawful right to communicate with his or her employees, it will cripple a worker\u2019s ability to make an informed decisio<\/strong><\/span>n,\u201d he said.<\/font><\/p>\n

SEN. MIKE ENZI (R-WY) [Murdoch delinked]: \u201cThis is just the latest outrage from a runaway agency<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s appointments to the NLRB is one of the things he has done right.<\/font><\/p>\n

Somehow, anything that helps American workers is job killing.  Of course, Republicans govern exclusively for the benefit of millionaires, billionaires, and corporate criminals.  They will never represent YOU!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anytime workers try to unionize, management almost invariably stalls to delay the vote as long as possible to bully, bribe and blackmail.  The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) set in place a new rule to accelerate the process of holding a vote to unionize.  Needless to say, The Republican Party have their panties in a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","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=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}