Don't you wish the U.S. had labour protections like these?

[ProudDad]

"The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that sections of Bill 29, the Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act, violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In a groundbreaking ruling extending the freedom of association provision of the Charter to include the right to free collective bargaining, the Court struck down key sections of the 2002 law that restricted and gutted the bargaining rights of health care workers."

http://www.heu.org/News/2007/06/NewsRelease6392/index.cfm?call2=HOMEPAGE&type=1

I doubt we'll see anything like this out of the ray-gun/bush/Clinton/bush Supremes.

[Selatius]

1. We could've had an equivalent Charter 60 years ago, but no Dem would pass it.

It was called the 2nd Bill of Rights, authored by FDR in the State of the Union address given on Jan 11, 1944.

(snip)

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.

http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/econrights/fdr-econbill.html

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Have No Fear! The Battlin' Congressional Dems Are On Top Of This!!!

They'll provide strong protections for workers and unions!!!

Any day now!!!

:rofl:

[madrchsod]

3. i don`t know whether to laugh or cry

since 1979 everytime i think i`m secure, my trade went overseas. now it`s temp and walmart because no one wants old steel workers.

[whistle]

4. U.S. corporate fascism aims to over throw all of these protections

...for labor everywhere in the world....remember the operative word is GREED!