Anti-Obama Business Group Will Teach Employers How To ‘Prepare Your Employees’ For Election

[highplainsdem]

Source: ThinkProgress

The National Federation of Independent Business is offering a seminar next week called “How to Speak With Your Employees About The Importance of the 2012 Elections,” for business owners who haven’t already tried to pressure employees into voting for their preferred candidate. The NFIB, officially nonpartisan, is a notoriously conservative organization that has donated millions to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads GPS Super PAC.

The 2-hour session will be held October 30 in Torrington, CT. The event description says:

Join other business owners and key personnel for an evening of networking and refreshments as part of NFIB’s continuing effort to ensure business owners have the resources to grow their business. Gather at West State Mechanical in Torrington and learn what you can do to prepare your employees for the crucial upcoming election.

Despite claims of nonpartisanship, the NFIB has spent nearly $2 million supporting Republicans and attacking Democrats this election cycle, even endorsing the embattled campaign of Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), ostracized by many conservatives after his “legitimate rape” debacle. NFIB also held a conference call earlier this year, during which Mitt Romney encouraged business owners to tell employees who to vote for based on “what you believe is best for the business.”

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[southernyankeebelle]

1. Am praying there will be a hugh backlash. Workers must stand up to these bullies.

What are they going to do fire everyone? I doubt it. Shame on them. This isn't the american way. World country are watching.

[Ninga]

2. I don't know about you, but I think it's a good idea to contact this fine upstanding

group and express my heartfelt opinion in kind but powerful language.

Here, you can too:

http://www.nfib.com/contact-us

[CarmanK]

3. Never know when to stop. GREED and ARROGANCE HAS NO boundaries or common sense.

I realize these business men/women think they have the upper hand, but they are sadly mistaken if they think AMERICANS are going to stand by and let them dictate how they will vote. Corporate AMERICA has great disdain for the AMERICAN people: worker and consumer. and they are due for a rude awakening. I for one am fed up with these characters who think because they have a little money in their pocket, that they are better than anyone else and entitled to make or break the rules according to their needs with no accountability.
Some of the workers will be intimidated. That is how the GOP/TPARTY has power, there are enuf frightened ones around to cower to their extreme demands. Fortunately for the USA they are in the minority.

[jwirr]

4. Who would have believed that our own business community would betray us so much. Un-american.

[arcane1]

12. Betrayal: It's what they do n/t

[HughBeaumont]

5. Seems to me that they don't care whether or not the economy or jobs situation improves.

They got theirs. It's a matter of getting more OF theirs without having to hire or expand. The last thing they want is America to turn on this frosting-decorated cowpile of neo-feudalism they've been feeding to them for 40 years. It's all about "keeping those ants in LINE!"

[drm604]

6. "Prepare"?

Prepare? Like we're some sort of manufacturing equipment that needs preparation. WTF?

If I had no interest in politics and didn't know one candidate from the other and my employer tried to "prepare" me I think I might vote for the other candidate just on principle.

My employer pays me to do a job. That's it. Nothing else. They do not "prepare" me for an election or anything else!

[jsr]

7. It's like preparing a roasted chicken

[drm604]

10. Exactly.

Their choice of words is very telling.

[nobodyspecial]

8. How to Threaten and Coerce Employees Before the Election

Employees: Your votes is private. Vote your OWN interests.

[AndyTiedye]

13. Some Employers are Making their Employees Donate to Robme Too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=273605

[RoccoR5955]

9. Any sane business person would know

That it should not be their place to "inform" their employees how to vote. That decision should be left to the employee.
Many of these folks who believe that their workers should listen to who to vote for, forget one thing. If it wasn't for their workers, they would not have a business. They would be working by themselves, and not able to make the profits that they intend to make. Employees are the actual manufacturers of profits for the boss, and the boss should be rewarding them greatly, not telling them how and what to do outside of their jobs.

[leftyohiolib]

11. they want the supreme court so badly they're pulling out all the stops