Posted on 07/06/2009 9:34:19 PM PDT by Steelfish
Unions: We’re Better Off Without Them
How the Obama administration's push for the Employee Free Choice Act could cripple the backbone of the economy: small businesses.
By Kevin Kelly | NEWSWEEK
Published Jul 6, 2009
I got the call from my assistant just as I was getting seated on a plane with my family heading to Dallas for Thanksgiving. "I thought you better know this," she said with pain in her voice, "OHSA is here."
Three words that would chill any business owner.
Because if an Occupational Health and Safety Administration inspector shows up unannounced it means someone in your company—or outside it—has complained to them about a possible safety problem.
Often a union is trying to find some fuel for a campaign. Tearfully I kissed my wife and kids and got off the plane—United actually held the flight so I could exit—and headed back to our family-owned bag manufacturing factory to find out what was going on.
My family thought I should have just gone to Dallas. But my paranoia runs too deep.
With the Obama Administration pushing the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would end elections and force companies to recognize a union if over half its employees signed cards requesting one, something called a "card check," I'm worried by anything that looks like possible organizing. And an OSHA visit fit the bill.
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OMG—exactly what I was thinking—rarely am I shocked by a headline, but this is one of those rare times!
They did the same thing to Brittany Spears; set her up to tear her down.
Obama has been treated to the Jackson-Spears process.
Don’t assume that Newsweek finally gets it, they are probably having union problems themselves.
Something is going on at NW. This is the second article I’ve seen that is not their style.. The first actually dared to ask if the love affair between Barry and the media is coming to an end. AND with pretty good perception.
So are they having a temporary Hell-en Thompson moment...or did some conservative buy them out?
“So are they having a temporary Hell-en Thompson moment...or did some conservative buy them out?”
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If this is even close to the truth - we should start to support them...let’s all request those articles, at the least, to start.
The headline doesn’t exactly agree with the rest of the article. The guy in the article basically admits that it is the threat of being unionized that keeps him on his toes about keeping the employees happy.
The Los Angeles Times has and does support anything to do with unions.
The strange part is they are non union.
I think their support is payoff to keep the unions off their ass!
That may be a good idea. I may hold off until I see one more decent article.
The power of the pen is mighty. It can make...and also break. (I pray daily for some objectivity instead of mindless worship from the press.)
Not being able to properly spell and name OSHA limits his credibility...
Unions are favored by two groups of people; union leaders, because they are parasites that do nothing except collect extra pay by sucking it out of members’ pockets, and lazy people, the ones who also do nothing except make their fellow members pick up their slack, KNOWING they will never be fired.
Perhaps the call from Hussein about the importance of public service is a peruasive plea to convince public employees that theirs is a duty driven by the desire for public service.
... loud sustained laughter...
Simple solution, bag guy... move your production off shore and tell the unions to go to hell....
Create an anti-union union. compete with them for control. Having a union doesn’t have to be about what the tradition SB unions are.
This is a brilliant idea! The antitrust laws don't apply to unions so they have monopolies. But, the mob has controlled some unions for years. Why not conservative controlled unions that advocate for conservative principles, rather than Communist International principles....
I could agree to that, but in case of the work place conservative principles aren’t really necessary. Free market principles would probably be preferred. They could enven be in suport of the company or industry with a little cooperation from business to show that this union wouldn’t be out to get them or be in an adversarial relationship like those other gangs.
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