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Congratulations, but how is it related to the actual life of the little animals?
The lion and the owl who sold out to the Astronomy Department (NASA) sure have a good life, but how about the little animals of the jungle who used to thrive in manufacture and unions???
Caution: Driver doesn't give a poo 3823FONSI If you're referring to the bu$h regime's Liberal use of lies, terrorism, rest, destruction, war crimes, torture, tax payer theft, and record deficit spending to build the stock...
Yes: Workers need a level field
WASHINGTON - Seventy years ago our Congress guaranteed the right of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively with their employers. But that was only on paper. It took the famous "sit-down strikes" of Flint, Mich., in 1936-7, where workers occupied the auto factories and refused to leave, before that right became a reality. Now we are back to square one. The right of workers to join unions and negotiate for a contract has been so eroded over the last three decades that it hardly exists at all in the United States. That was the conclusion of Human Rights Watch five years ago, and it has only gotten worse.
Employers routinely fire workers for trying to organize a union. When there is a strike, they can "permanently replace" their entire labor force - a weapon that was rarely used until the 1980s.
Employers often threaten to leave the country, a threat made increasingly deliverable as more of U.S. manufacturing production has moved overseas. They hire union-busting consultants and subject employees to one-on-one, often intimidating meetings with their supervisors.
Then, if the union can still win an election - where the majority of workers vote to choose the union as their bargaining representative - the company is required by law to "bargain in good faith." But too often they don't - and about a third of the time, they never sign a contract even after the union has been certified.
