There's a potential silver lining to the SCOTUS decision

[BlueCollar]

The National Right To Work Committee is fucked...

That is if the AFL-CIO lawyers get their shit together and challenge the LMRDA and all other right-wing legislation preventing Unions from representing working people..

[wtbymark]

1. and now you'll make 5cents an hour

do you actually think any union, or all unions combined, have the monetary capital to fight even one multi-national corp. ONCE? Just think of Exxon's profit in 1 quarter = the monetary capital of all unions over a decade.

"Remember 1/21"

[BlueCollar]

4. It's not about "monetary capital"

in the LMRDA....

It's about "latitude"

Workers collectively are much better organised than corporations...

As I said in my original post...

AFL-CIO Lawyers should be huddling up right now saying, "OK...Game on"

[doc03]

8. Like I said you a dreaming, you are going to go up against

Exxon. how has that organization been working for ya the last 30 years.

[BlueCollar]

12. Crandall thought a bunch of flight attendants could be broken

they kicked his ass...

it's not about what you want to do....it's about how you do it...

[doc03]

2. You are out of your mind if think the AFL-CIO can

outspend any big corporation. Hell a billion dollars would be a drop in the bucket to a GE or Exxon.

[BlueCollar]

5. See my earlier response...

out of adversity comes opportunity...

[TheDebbieDee]

7. That's why corporate taxes should be raised. So corporations

have less money with which to influence members of congress.

[doc03]

9. like that is going to happen n/t

[AlinPA]

13. I could see several big companies like Mobil getting together and putting up say $40B

and buying every single house and senate seat. They would go in debt to do it, but get it all back in a few years.

[leftstreet]

3. Could be some 'there' there

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision today to strike down a ban on corporations taking part in political campaigns will get lots of attention for what it says about those campaigns.

Pundits, though, may miss the more profound implication of the majority opinion -- a ringing endorsement of the First Amendment that could mean stronger language and more adult content on over-the-air television and radio, fewer prosecutions for obscenity, and more lawsuits based on speech limits for students, workers, and others.

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/21079

Interesting

[BlueCollar]

6. I think you get it...

no chance you're a Lawyer?

[wtbymark]

10. its not about 'free speech' of any individual or association

it's about POWER, this decision gives unrestricted power to multi-national corporations to influence our government and manipulate our people. Tell me what the fuck any union can do about that. Make a law? sorry, blocked by that bought and paid for politician. Hell, strikes are a moot enterprise now that the company can just close shop and outsource with no consequences.

[BlueCollar]

11. "...no consequences.."

I disagree...

C.H.A.O.S. is now fair...