Just to throw this out there, here's how management prevents unions in my experience (but I ain't no expert, so correct me) --
Let's say I'm the CEO, TheGriefer is my COO, and Judah, Scott, and Robert are workers. One day TheGriefer mentions that he overheard Robert singing the praises of unions to Judah and Scott over lunch. Well, Chuck and I agree that we there ain't gonna be no unions, no how. Chuck has a plan: (1.) He's going to remind Robert that he can't organize on company property or on company time. (2.) Chuck's going to pull Scott and Judah into his office at separate times and give them a little "appreciation" award. Say, a $100 gift card to Target. (3.) Chuck's going to "re-organize" job duties and institute a new performance program tailored to beat the crap out of Robert, but to favor Judah and Scott. (4.) Chuck's going to thoroughly document performance on a weekly or daily basis. Wow, Robert's not cutting it. He's going to have to be put on a performance improvement plan. (5.) Chuck's going to design "career path plans" for Judah and Scott and show how their performance has improve over the last 9 months. Sadly, Robert had to be let go. In other words, management can lobby employees NOT to unionize all of the time but Robert can't. If the union movement is catching momentum management can delay or force secret ballot elections when it knows it can win. Thus, as I understand it, the reason unions want Card Check is give more control and instant approval - once you get a majority of signatures you've got a union. That's not true today. And, frankly, one of the reasons this probably won't become law is because lots of big Dem donors don't want it, not to mention Republicans are against it. Personally I'm indifferent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293128 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
