Americans Are Raring for a Fight Against Corporate Power

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

3/4 of Americans want to see a huge worker protection bill pass through Congress, and the greedy corporations are running scared.

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 self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection." Far from assuring this right, however, the ... Full Story »

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by Patricia L'Herrou - Mar. 17, 2009

there's much information in this piece by jim hightower (a former congressman) here about how corporations are fighting against the labor union bill coming up in congress. the piece discusses the groups who are against the bill and how the present legislation has been undermined over the years since reagan to give corporations almost all control over employees rights and wages. he uses facts, figures and other sources to make his points.

this bill could give a needed more equal balance between the many corporations who currently answer to wall street's investors, not much to employees who do the work on the job.

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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 16, 2009

Hightower provides an excellent description of the present state of labor law and the NRLB, and the provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act. This AlterNet version is more accessible than the version at the Hightower Lowdown site.

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

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

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 ...

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