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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe New Blacklisting?
A Senator and a Governor (see TN) threatening governnment consequnces if workers unionize!!....umm, that seems to me not too different from a 100 yrs ago when workers were threatened with blacklisting (i.e., never get employment again). Gee, the GOP is so creative...not...
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The New Blacklisting? (Original Post)
DemocracyInaction
Feb 2014
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YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)1. What consequences did they threaten? n/t
DemocracyInaction
(2,506 posts)2. taxes
Said would revoke VW tax breaks...hinting that would cause VW to move, downsize. etc. So threatening by using the government.
LAGC
(5,330 posts)4. Wow.
Threatening to chase jobs out of Tennessee.
And these guys are considered "pro-business?"
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)6. Yikes!
If that isn't illegal it should be.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)3. The greedy rich continue to have the same m.o..
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)5. A government that acts against the people organizing...
...is an enemy of the people.