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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-25-10 08:07 PM
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Workplace Democracy: Corporate Style
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np1qYnApKWo
 
Posted on YouTube: April 22, 2010
By YouTube Member: TheElectricalWorker
Views on YouTube: 527
 
Posted on DU: April 26, 2010
By DU Member: Omaha Steve
Views on DU: 231
 

http://www.jwjblog.org/2010/04/what-really-goes-on-in-organizing-campaigns/

By IBEW, on April 23rd, 2010

The debate over measures to fix America’s broken labor laws took a back seat during the long debate on health care. Now that the focus has shifted to efforts to stimulate economic growth and job creation, it’s time to put workers’ rights front and center.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce along with right-wing noise groups with shady sources of funding put out numerous talking points and videos painting unions as the problem as citing union intimidation as the biggest threat to the rights of working people to decide whether to unionize or not. They even went so far as to hire an actor from The Sopranos (union actors by the way) to create a cartoonish vision of this imagined reality.

The idea that unions are the problem flies so greatly in the face of the reality experienced by countless workers who have been involved in organizing campaigns, that a lie that big can’t be allowed to stand unchallenged. But rather than earnest position papers and counterpoints, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers thought it was time to push back with a video version of how corporations really view workplace democracy.

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