Time for real workplace democracy-- not the phony company version

Hightower Lowdown by Jim Hightower, Phillip Frazer | Mar. 13, 2009 (Opinion)

Since Reagan, unions have been squeezed out of the workplace

It's always touching to hear top management almost sob with concern about employee rights, but Mr. Marcus is flat wrong. EFCA does not eliminate the secret ballot. The entire NLRB process is left in place, still available if workers choose to use it. EFCA simply restores the original intent of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. The card-check method was authorized in that law--but, over the years, corporate interests were able to kill it by chiseling ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 13, 2009

Hightower here writes one of the better articles on the state of the workplace and worker rights, and the benefits of enacting the employee free choice act (EFCA).

The corporate chiefs are financing huge front organizations to attempt to disinform the public.

If management is feeling any genuine democratic impulse, how about applying it to their own organizations? After all, corporate managers have become entrenched despots, ... More »

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by Martha Rosler - Mar. 19, 2009

Those of us not subscribers were unable to read the entire article. I have read this story in other sources, however, and knowing what I know about the leadership of Home Depot and corporate employers' fears of EFCA, I find it persuasive.

unions are necessary to uphold workers' rights; read the history books.

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Americans Are Raring for a Fight Against Corporate Power

AlterNet by Jim Hightower | Mar. 16, 2009 (Opinion)

The NLRB system is not merely broken, it has been thoroughly perverted. Its original mission was to assure that America's working men and women have "the right to ...

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