KenInMontiMN
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This is my reply to a question put to me regarding the Nat. Right to Work Committee:
Since the year I was born, 1955, the National Right to Work committee has sought in unabashed fashion to destroy unions, to undermine the right to bargain collectively, and subvert benefits of workers in the workplace. They pretend to be about the well-being and benefit of wage-earners but do nothing to advocate for them, rather are all about union-busting, destroying real workers advocates. They were founded and are funded entirely by groups of major industrialists and corporations- The Castle Rock Foundation, The John M. Olin Foundation, The Walton Family Foundation, The Sarah Scaife Foundation, and The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the best description of the law: “'right-to-work’…provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' …Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining...."
"The Foundation plays a unique role in the anti-union movement by intervening with workers’ efforts to form unions. The interloping group interferes with organizing efforts at various stages of campaigns, and even when a company and its workers have agreed to work together. To scare workers away from organizing, it supplies workers with propaganda and encourages them to file charges and claims against the union:
* The Foundation sent propaganda and a letter to employees at Johnson Controls, proclaiming, “[union representatives] are not Girl Scouts stopping by to sell cookies. These are full-time union operatives whose sole purpose is to get workers to sign the cards—by any means necessary. Often, employees are misled, harassed, or feel threatened into signing.”
* When Cintas laundry workers began a nationwide effort to form a union, the Foundation offered to fund workers’ lawsuits against the union. To date, the Foundation has recruited only one worker to file suit against the union."
-Former National Right to Work President Reed Larson on his years fighting unions.
Grover Norquist, by the way, needs to be handled very carefully, he's very much in bed with these people.
http://www.americanrightsatwork.org...nal-right-to-work/national-right-to-work.html
To whatever extent the Campaign For Liberty endorses the National Right to Work committee, it has become the pawn of the large corporate powers that be, and stands opposed to the rights of American working people in general. Neutrality on this is a must.
Since the year I was born, 1955, the National Right to Work committee has sought in unabashed fashion to destroy unions, to undermine the right to bargain collectively, and subvert benefits of workers in the workplace. They pretend to be about the well-being and benefit of wage-earners but do nothing to advocate for them, rather are all about union-busting, destroying real workers advocates. They were founded and are funded entirely by groups of major industrialists and corporations- The Castle Rock Foundation, The John M. Olin Foundation, The Walton Family Foundation, The Sarah Scaife Foundation, and The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the best description of the law: “'right-to-work’…provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' …Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining...."
"The Foundation plays a unique role in the anti-union movement by intervening with workers’ efforts to form unions. The interloping group interferes with organizing efforts at various stages of campaigns, and even when a company and its workers have agreed to work together. To scare workers away from organizing, it supplies workers with propaganda and encourages them to file charges and claims against the union:
* The Foundation sent propaganda and a letter to employees at Johnson Controls, proclaiming, “[union representatives] are not Girl Scouts stopping by to sell cookies. These are full-time union operatives whose sole purpose is to get workers to sign the cards—by any means necessary. Often, employees are misled, harassed, or feel threatened into signing.”
* When Cintas laundry workers began a nationwide effort to form a union, the Foundation offered to fund workers’ lawsuits against the union. To date, the Foundation has recruited only one worker to file suit against the union."
-Former National Right to Work President Reed Larson on his years fighting unions.
Grover Norquist, by the way, needs to be handled very carefully, he's very much in bed with these people.
http://www.americanrightsatwork.org...nal-right-to-work/national-right-to-work.html
To whatever extent the Campaign For Liberty endorses the National Right to Work committee, it has become the pawn of the large corporate powers that be, and stands opposed to the rights of American working people in general. Neutrality on this is a must.
