Comments on: With All Eyes on the States, GOP Quietly Pushes Ridiculous Anti-Labor Bill Through Congress http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/03/with-all-eyes-on-the-states-gop-quietly-pushes-ridiculous-anti-labor-bill-through-congress/ Democracy. Unwashed. Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:36:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: HarHAr http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/03/with-all-eyes-on-the-states-gop-quietly-pushes-ridiculous-anti-labor-bill-through-congress/#comment-140 HarHAr Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:15:09 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=346#comment-140 Matt, If you are making less than the minimum wage you definately need to find another job pal. It sounds like you were being scammed. My brother works for UPS and their union is very strong. He pays something like 80$ per month in union fees and they negotiated full healthcare premiums, pensions and at minimum 60 grand a year. You got ripped off pal, and not by a union. Matt, If you are making less than the minimum wage you definately need to find another job pal. It sounds like you were being scammed. My brother works for UPS and their union is very strong. He pays something like 80$ per month in union fees and they negotiated full healthcare premiums, pensions and at minimum 60 grand a year. You got ripped off pal, and not by a union.

]]> By: Matt http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/03/with-all-eyes-on-the-states-gop-quietly-pushes-ridiculous-anti-labor-bill-through-congress/#comment-138 Matt Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:25:27 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=346#comment-138 You know, I spent about a year as part of a union and all they did was take money out of my paycheck. When I was fired for wearing shoes made from the wrong fabric, I complained to my Union and they did nothing. $2 out of $7 an hour, for a year, and I got nothing when I was obviously singled out. They definitely didn't give ME any bargaining rights in whether or not I wanted to give 2 bucks an hour to them, or even if I wanted to be in the Union at all. Or even in keeping my job long enough to run home and change shoes. You know, I spent about a year as part of a union and all they did was take money out of my paycheck. When I was fired for wearing shoes made from the wrong fabric, I complained to my Union and they did nothing.

$2 out of $7 an hour, for a year, and I got nothing when I was obviously singled out.

They definitely didn’t give ME any bargaining rights in whether or not I wanted to give 2 bucks an hour to them, or even if I wanted to be in the Union at all. Or even in keeping my job long enough to run home and change shoes.

]]> By: TravisBaskerfield http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/03/with-all-eyes-on-the-states-gop-quietly-pushes-ridiculous-anti-labor-bill-through-congress/#comment-134 TravisBaskerfield Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:30:18 +0000 http://dirtyhippies.org/?p=346#comment-134 WOuldn't it be a hoot, after the next round of federal elections with a very low turn-out, if a movement took off and used the same argument that the non-votes be regarded as active votes AGAINST the candidates involved? WOuldn’t it be a hoot, after the next round of federal elections with a very low turn-out, if a movement took off and used the same argument that the non-votes be regarded as active votes AGAINST the candidates involved?

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