benburch
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:33 AM
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New Year's Resolution; Will YOU help Unionize your workplace this year? |
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What about it?
Do *you* have the balls to start a Unionization movement at YOUR workplace?
If so, I can help you get in touch with the right people!!!
Please keep this kicked, I want this thread to live for a while in honor of the slain non-union miners in WV, who would likely still be alive had there been a Union looking out for them!
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:36 AM
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1. I am happy to help kick this worthwhile thread. My father walked the |
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lines with Walter Ruther......yes THAT Walter Ruther who bravely organized auto workers and fought the good fight.
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benburch
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:37 AM
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2. We need ten thousand more like your father. nt |
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:53 AM
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10. Shit, he's got a library and a highway named after him |
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:38 AM
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already done.
Do you mean these miners were NOT union? I didn't know there was such a thing anymore.
I'm out of touch.
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benburch
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:39 AM
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4. There has been a systematic campaign of union busting in coal country. |
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These were non-union miners. Not that the media will tell you that.
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:40 AM
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5. WV had forgone unions for the miners!! The shareholders were the |
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the primary concern!!!----not the miners and their safty!
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:40 AM
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6. As soon as I get a work place I will! |
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I joined the IWW so I am ready...
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:41 AM
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7. i helped unionize the paraeducators |
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in my adult school. it took 20 years to organize the aides/ paras but after taking years of cuts in hours and the loss of ALL benefits, I guess they had had enough. we were the only non-union group so of course, we were always the first ones to be cut.
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:43 AM
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8. Watch out--there's alot of anti-union sentiment here lately... |
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I don't know how it happened, but alot of DUers have become anti-union. I'm a strong supporter of unions and I hate to see our Dem leaders let them die without a fight, but I fear it's happening.
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:52 AM
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9. Then those DUers are not really our friends. |
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Only though strong Unions can we preserve the Middle Class and ensure that workplaces are as safe as possible.
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Wed Jan-04-06 09:56 AM
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I run a small non-profit that gives grants to charity, and I'm the director... so, NO. I don't get any benefits, either, though the foundation did pay my health care coverage until I was covered by my husband. Since I'm the only employee, there would be no union.
My husband belongs to a union, however. (The Catholic School Teachers Union in NYC. There are two separate unions for Catholic School teachers. They worked without a contract for a year, and they'd have "sick-ins" every once in awhile during that time. (Well, twice.) And they picketed twice, also. Now they have a contract that they are happy with. For the most part.
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Wed Jan-04-06 10:02 AM
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12. I am in a similar situation as I am self-employed. |
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But that does not mean that I cannot support unionization efforts elsewhere.
In fact, I considered applying for part time work at a local WalMart JUST to start a unionization drive there.
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Wed Jan-04-06 10:09 AM
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13. Here is my experience with unionizing |
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A friend and I worked our asses off to get this shop we were working in to go union, Owners kept telling us if we did they would just move their operation. We called their bluff, voted in the union and came to work the following monday to an empty building. Those were the days. this was in '71. We needed more unions then as we do now.
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Wed Jan-04-06 10:14 AM
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14. They cannot do that everywhere! |
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And some things, like mines, CANNOT move.
We need to be UNITED.
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Wed Jan-04-06 10:35 AM
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15. I agree I just wanted to tell of my experience. |
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Republican administrations are not union friendly, my whole working years that has been true. We need to unionize big time.
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Wed Jan-04-06 11:38 AM
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Republicans have ALWAYS hated Unions, and anything else that stands between them and the sort of wealth that used to be associated only with Nobility.
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Wed Jan-04-06 12:27 PM
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Yes, they most likely would still be alive, had there been a union.
God, the grief is like a flood.
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