Your comments show how really uninformed you are about organizing. Neutrality agreements are THE WAY unions have been bypassing the NLRB; however, employers are mounting a legal attack to force unions to use NLRB procedures and invalidate any recognition based on alternative methods of recognizing unions such as card check agreements.
Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org http://www.nathannewman.org
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Robert Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:22 PM Subject: Re: Union Avoids Neutrality Agreements Fight- Fears Bush NLRB Attack
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Nathan Newman wrote:
> attack on Dems. As the article notes, CWA has dropped charges against
> Verizon over its blantant violations of a neutrality agreement won as part
> of last summer's mass strike on the East Coast. Why?
> Because the fear is that the Bush NLRB will declare the whole agreement
> illegal.
Awwwwwww. The poor, helpless, weak CWA, with its 630,000 members, is helpless before the Power, the Fury, and the Might of the toothless, feeble NLRB. Wake up and smell the global coffee, Nathan -- unions have been going around, underneath and over the NLRB and America's pathetically weak labor laws for decades now.
> For those doing organizing, the difference between operating under a GOP
> NLRB and a Dem NLRB is like night and day.
What practical organizing campaigns have you participated in that support this claim? Names, dates, facts, not DNC hysteria, please.
> Nader screwed the union movement.
The only candidate to take explicitly pro-labor, anti-corporate stands in the election was -- Nader. The only candidate to blast neoliberalism's deadly assault on the planet was -- Nader. The only candidate to call our two-parties-with-half-a-brain system as the farce it truly is was -- Nader. The only candidate with a principled activist track record of doing what he said was -- Nader.
And of course you couldn't even be bothered to relay CWA's action page, where folks can do things like learn about the Verizon struggle and support their fellow workers:
http://www.aflcio.org/voiceatwork/7daysaction_v.htm
-- Dennis