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

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, effectively shutting out the people who actually own the company (shareholders) from their rightful role in decision-making—including, for one fat example, decisions over the outlandish salaries, bonuses, and perks that top managers award to themselves.

Most rich corporate bosses do not like real democracy.

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