Comments on: Trying to explain the indefensible http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 May 2012 00:28:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: BP http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5321 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:45:50 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5321 How about making the first step secret so the business doesn't know who signed the cards asking for a union vote? The law may be a poorly thought out attempt at fixing a real problem. I agree that unions can intimidate, but so can businesses. After all, this country has a history of government backed intimidation and even murder of unions and union organizers. You can thank unions for the 5 day work week. They may not be all good, but they aren't the great evil the business community likes to label them either. How about making the first step secret so the business doesn’t know who signed the cards asking for a union vote? The law may be a poorly thought out attempt at fixing a real problem.

I agree that unions can intimidate, but so can businesses. After all, this country has a history of government backed intimidation and even murder of unions and union organizers.

You can thank unions for the 5 day work week. They may not be all good, but they aren’t the great evil the business community likes to label them either.

]]> by: mikey http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5318 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:25:42 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5318 My BS alarm just went off. BEN with all due respect; UNIONS INTIMIDATE. It’s their stock and trade. The unions make a run at my company every 3 or 4 years and get voted down decisively every time. Union members crowd the sidewalks to our buildings on these occasions ostensibly to hand out literature. Their real purpose is to press up as close as possible to everyone going into the building, stare them down and intimidate. Anyone advocating no secret balloting for unionization is a thug IMO. There is no rational argument for it. As for Dan being ignorant, that’s hogwash too. Lazy…maybe; Ignorant…not a chance. My BS alarm just went off. BEN with all due respect; UNIONS INTIMIDATE. It’s their stock and trade. The unions make a run at my company every 3 or 4 years and get voted down decisively every time. Union members crowd the sidewalks to our buildings on these occasions ostensibly to hand out literature. Their real purpose is to press up as close as possible to everyone going into the building, stare them down and intimidate. Anyone advocating no secret balloting for unionization is a thug IMO. There is no rational argument for it. As for Dan being ignorant, that’s hogwash too. Lazy…maybe; Ignorant…not a chance.

]]> by: Debrah http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5316 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:27:22 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5316 <i>"......if you had bothered to do ANY research on this issue …. are the machinations and illegal activities employers use to intimidate their captive workforce before elections."</i> Do you have any concrete proof of this? “……if you had bothered to do ANY research on this issue …. are the machinations and illegal activities employers use to intimidate their captive workforce before elections.”

Do you have any concrete proof of this?

]]> by: RLR http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5315 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:48:08 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5315 Perhaps BEN could be so good as to explain why a secret ballot to unionize is a bad thing? Perhaps BEN could be so good as to explain why a secret ballot to unionize is a bad thing?

]]> by: BEN http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5314 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:42:00 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2008/11/11/trying-to-explain-the-indefensible/#comment-5314 the only indefensible concept in play here ..... if you had bothered to do ANY research on this issue .... are the machinations and illegal activities employers use to intimidate their captive workforce before elections. It's as if there is a general election held with only the incumbent party allowed to have t.v. advertising. In a recent survey 64% of American workers said they would join a Union if it were hassle free and could do so without having their jobs threatened. Employers use the election process to delay, thwart and intimidate ...... and ignorant, lazy scribes like yourself help keep Democratic workplaces a vision for the future. the only indefensible concept in play here ….. if you had bothered to do ANY research on this issue …. are the machinations and illegal activities employers use to intimidate their captive workforce before elections. It’s as if there is a general election held with only the incumbent party allowed to have t.v. advertising. In a recent survey 64% of American workers said they would join a Union if it were hassle free and could do so without having their jobs threatened. Employers use the election process to delay, thwart and intimidate …… and ignorant, lazy scribes like yourself help keep Democratic workplaces a vision for the future.

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