A Labor Day Message from the Republican Party

Happy 'Enlightened' Labor Day

by Teamster's General President James P. Hoffa

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week that workers in the United States apparently don't want to join unions because of the "very enlightened management in this country now, treating employees better and employees have decided they don't want to pay the dues."

McConnell, R-Ky., husband of the most anti-union Labor Secretary in history, enlightened the rest of the country with his ridiculous reason claiming why no Republican will vote for the Employee Free Choice Act

To borrow from Rep. Barney Frank, McConnell must spend most of his time on a planet that's much better than the planet the rest of us live on.

In truth, the Employee Free Choice Act is desperately needed on my planet, where 16 workers die on the job every day because managers ignore their health and safety. On my planet, field workers die of heat exhaustion. Laundry workers are killed by dangerous machinery. Exhausted airline pilots die in crashes. 

Rightardia comment: The US no longer makes durable goods any more because the corporations have offshored the plants and worker's jobs.


Wages have been flat while American worker productivity has increased by 20 per cent. Health care is tied to employment. The income gap between the rich and poor is comparable to what it was before the Great Depression.


Wirehead, our technical editor, was a Communication Workers of America worker, and he discovered that training, pay, and benefits in a union company were far superior to other companies that he worked for.


Union workers can also file grievances against 'bad managers.'  Try that in a non-union shop. The union dues are trivial. Having a union steward looking out for worker's rights in a company is worth it.


Republicans have passed 'right to work laws' in conservative states that allow workers in a union company to opt out of paying dues. These laws have the intent to weaken unions.


Corporations  love to talk about competition and free enterprise, but many now require workers to sign non-compete agreements. You might think this only applies to sales people, but in the state Wirehead works in, corporations are making insurance workers and even college instructors sign these agreements. 


Fascism is in full swagger in America.


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source: Daily Beast

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