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DemocracyInaction

(2,506 posts)
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:31 PM Feb 2014

The 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 OP
What consequences did they threaten? n/t YarnAddict Feb 2014 #1
taxes DemocracyInaction Feb 2014 #2
Wow. LAGC Feb 2014 #4
Yikes! YarnAddict Feb 2014 #6
The greedy rich continue to have the same m.o.. The Wielding Truth Feb 2014 #3
A government that acts against the people organizing... Lizzie Poppet Feb 2014 #5

DemocracyInaction

(2,506 posts)
2. taxes
Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:36 PM
Feb 2014

Said would revoke VW tax breaks...hinting that would cause VW to move, downsize. etc. So threatening by using the government.

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