Comments on: This Is Why We Need the Employee Free Choice Act

By: Specter to American Workers: “Drop Dead!” | Comments from Left Field

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:42:33 +0000

[...] Fucking hell — yet AGAIN Specter yanks progressive chains before finally–and after MUCH agony–deciding to vote the fucking GOP party line. Um, yeah. The worst economic downturn since the motherfucking Great Depression is, like, totally the wrong time to do something that might benefit, um, American workers. [...]

By: bastard.logic

bastard.logic — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:34:34 +0000

Specter to American Workers: “Drop Dead!”…

by matttbastard
Well, so much for Arlen Specter’s emancipated testicles:
In June 2007, the vote on the Employee Free Choice Act was virtually monolithic: 50 Senators, Democrats, voted for cloture and 48 Republicans against. I was the only Repub…

By: mjB

mjB — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:07:42 +0000

The Employee Free Choice Act should be called “The Employee Right For Intimidation” act!

http://tinyurl.com/ddjzcr

By: Chief

Chief — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:28:31 +0000

“How can you not feel for this woman, who blames herself because she came to a fork in the road when she was 16 and chose one path over the other, when she should have known that over 20 years later she would be fired for a trivial reason in the worst economy since the 1930s?”

Sometimes, no amount of planning can prepare one for the future. At a few times in my life, when I was a whole lot younger, I made decisions that I had no way of knowing how profound they would be forty plus years later. In 1962, with a pregnant wife and no idea how to market any job skills I might have, I re-enlisted for six years in the U.S. Navy. I was derided by my peers. I was called “a lifer.” I didn’t spend 21 years in the Navy out of ‘patriotism.’ It was a way to provide for my family. If I had been single in 1962, I would not have re-enlisted.

In high school in the 1950s, my father wanted me to follow in his footsteps and be a printer. He was a journeyman member of the International Typographical Union for his whole working life. I did not like the dark, dank places he worked and I did not like the smell of printer’s ink. At the time, late fifties, printers were at the top of the union scale as far a wages were concerned.

It turned out to be a wise move because by 1981 the union retirement fund was broke. There was no need for printers with the advent of computers and word processing software.

I was lucky.