Big state labor union backs Dayton for gov

I think it's great. He's the best candidate for governor of MN. I fully support him. I'm an AFSCME member and attended the screening.

Flying the Union Skies--Labor tries an end run around the law to organize Delta.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274...


No trucks from Mexico, no new trade agreements, a sweet deal for the United Auto Workers at GM and Chrysler, tariffs on Chinese tires, and now Big Labor has another demand of the Obama Administration: Overturn 75 years of labor policy to sandbag Delta Airlines and unionize transportation workers. Will it get that too?

The latest looming political favor features the National Mediation Board, the federal agency established in 1934 under the Railway Labor Act to oversee labor relations in the air and rail industries. A department of the AFL-CIO last month sent a letter demanding that the board tear up longstanding rules requiring that a majority of all airline or rail workers vote in favor of union representation to win union certification.

The AFL-CIO instead wants a "minority rule," requiring only a majority of the employees who actually vote. Under current rules, if an airline has 10,000 nonunion flight attendants, 5,001 must vote yes to unionize. Under the union proposal if only 2,000 of 10,000 vote, and 1,001 vote yes, all 10,000 become subject to unionization.

The timing here is nakedly opportunistic. Two of Delta's unions—the Association of Flight Attendants and the International Association of Machinists—have elections pending in front of the Mediation Board as a result of last year's Delta acquisition of Northwest Airlines. Northwest was largely unionized but Delta wasn't. The Delta flight attendants tried to unionize last year but lost that election, and now the AFL-CIO wants the White House to stack the deck in their favor. Beyond Delta, the new rules would make it easier to unionize JetBlue, Continental, FedEx and short-line railroads, among others.

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The further their popularity falls with workers the more money they funnel to 'RATS to skirt and change labor laws in their favor.

Colleen Morse wrote:

I think it's great. He's the best candidate for governor of MN. I fully support him. I'm an AFSCME member and attended the screening.

An AFSMCE endorsement is very helpful. It helps non-AFSMCE member voters know who to avoid. But if you do want higher taxes to hold some union member's retirement untouched (unlike your own), provide raises when you get none, and hand over healthcare benefits, work schedules, and job security you only dream of, all at your expense, go ahead, vote for the AFSMCE candidate. Sucker.

State Worker Beat Up At SEIU Meeting

http://cbs13.com/local/hamidi.seiu.beating.2....

A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union.

Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax Board. Last night he walked into a union hall in Sacramento for an SEIU local 1000 meeting.

"We had every right to be here, very simple; it wasn't anything private or anything exclusive," said Hamidi.

But Hamidi says the union members did not want him there.

"Three, four people jumped at me, wrestled with me, then did all that," said Hamidi. "I was covered in blood and then over to the emergency room."

more at cbs13.com ...

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Why are unions allowed to beat people and send them emergency rooms and no one is arrested?

This is the same union whose CEO has visited White House 22 times in 9 months.

Mark in Hiding wrote:

...The AFL-CIO instead wants a "minority rule," requiring only a majority of the employees who actually vote. Under current rules, if an airline has 10,000 nonunion flight attendants, 5,001 must vote yes to unionize. Under the union proposal if only 2,000 of 10,000 vote, and 1,001 vote yes, all 10,000 become subject to unionization...

So the Union wants their elections to mirror political elections in America, where winners are determined by a majority of those who actually vote? Wow, how subversive can they get?

Watch out, the next thing on their communist agenda will be Collective Bargaining! What ever happened to rugged individualism?

Madaman wrote:

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So the Union wants their elections to mirror political elections in America, where winners are determined by a majority of those who actually vote? Wow, how subversive can they get?
Watch out, the next thing on their communist agenda will be Collective Bargaining! What ever happened to rugged individualism?

Collective bargaining took away the "rugged individual". The one who makes or breaks him or her self on thier own merits. Not senority, not hiring guidelines, simply by how hard they work, and how they strive to make thier employer money. You know, they are called valued employees.
Unions shoot these people down. We cannot have a shining star! It makes the collective look bad.

Madaman wrote:

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What ever happened to rugged individualism?

They unionized with AFSME, became sluggards and performance clones, and they all lived whining ever after (on a workers comp disability).

I can't help but notice that no one is supporting the common-sense change in voting protocol that has slanted heavily AGAINST affirmative outcomes for unions. Counting those who do not exercise their franchise to vote as NO votes makes forming a union extraordinarily difficult -- harnesses natural cynicism and apathy as automatically in favor of Management.

Imagine if civil political elections worked that way: the Incumbent automatically stays in office unless the Challenger obtains 50% plus 1 of all Registered Voters -- not just of those who actually voted.

Jesse Ventura would STILL be governor!