He May Not Have Kept His Promise And Walked With Them But Obama Is On Their(Our) Side On This One

[lame54]

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2011/06/fairness-for-workers-obama.html

Fairness for Workers: Obama Administration Moves to Put Union Elections on a Fast Track (Your Action REQUIRED)
Thursday, June 23, 2011 | Posted by Deaniac83

When President Obama's National Labor Relations Board stopped Boeing from illegally punishing its employees for the sin of unionization, the "progressive" media relegated the story to "ehh, boring." So don't be surprised when you also hardly find coverage of another important step the NLRB is about to take: cutting red tape that helps union busters and helping speed up organization of workers into unions. The AP reports that the new rules are likely to rein in the period of time big business would have to harass and intimidate workers. The SEIU, on their blog, has a good explanation of what the rule will do and why we need to stand by the NLRB in this process (emphasis theirs):

the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a proposed rule that would restore a measure of fairness to the union election process. As it stands, most workers who want to form a union will never get the chance. The current rules allow employers to drag out the process for months - in some cases years - while they wage a campaign in the workplace to mislead and intimidate their employees.

For decades, the federal government has allowed big corporations to litigate workers' efforts to death when they are trying to form a union and get a leg up in supporting their families. Irresponsible companies typically delay the vote and often retaliate against employees who want to form union. During organizing campaigns, more than one-third of employers fire pro-union workers. <...>

This proposed rule change announced today presents a level playing field. When working people choose to exercise their legal right to form a union, they should be able to do so without the fierce intimidation, bullying and threats from cash-cow-corporations.

[Ship of Fools]

1. thanks for this

i've NEVER doubted the prez's stance on this issue and so many others, past and future. the whole promise to march thing, and it being a "broken" promise, is the dumbest crap i had ever read anywhere. not like the guy isn't busy, or anything like that. check out bernie sanders' letter (assuming you got one) for a reminder as to what bho has been up against for this term.

so what that he hangs back and waits on certain issues? i think it's genius. wait for critical mass, then work behind the scenes to make things happen. the good people of WI have woken me up to taking up action that i otherwise would have slept through. the man is playing the other side (AND some of us) like a fiddle. mistakes? of course. who hasn't made them? use the bully pulpit? to what avail? to watch the pendulum swing back and forth every 4 years??? count me in for being grateful for having this community organizer in the lead for these years, and hopefully 4 more. frankly, i don't think we're going to make it anyway (fukushima and others, global warming, etc...), but i'm still grateful that humanity had a few minutes of sanity by electing this person of character.

integrity and character -- simple as that. anyone who doesn't believe that has either not studied bho's body language well enough or isn't capable of doing so in the first place.

imho.

i'm sure some will flame away their tired old anti-bo arguments, but you will never convince me otherwise. now i'm going to claw my way back out of the rabbit hole of DU. i come here to read the news and donate when i can. i don't comment too much anymore. getting tired of attacks by some.

thanks again.

[lame54]

3. about the dumbest thing ever...

if the excuse is that he is too busy - didn't Obama know that he would be too busy when he made this empty promise?

[vi5]

6. He needs time to attend fundraisers...

That billion dollars (or is it a trillion? I forget what the goal is) isn't going to raise itself.

[Ship of Fools]

7. oh for crying out loud!

have you ever heard of hyperbole? ...putting on comfortable shoes...

he was behind WI then, and he is behind WI now.

grow up.

[lame54]

8. just watched it again...

sounded pretty literal to me

[roguevalley]

9. he's busy evolving.

Like the KKK. They are evolving too. Give everyone enough decades maybe we can all sit on the same bus without blows. Probably.

Fortunately, Martin Luther King didn't have the same problem, nor Truman when he integrated the army.

[MilesColtrane]

2. I give Obama props for helping union organizers.

it's clear that the Employee Free Choice Act isn't going to get past the Senate in its present state, so I'm glad he's doing something positive.

[MilesColtrane]

4. Please sign this petition to encourage the National Labor Relations Board to...

adopt the proposed changes.


http://action.seiu.org/page/s/nlrb


Thanks

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Thank goodness. He's not sticking his neck out for much. Glad to see at least this. nt

[spanone]

10. k&r...