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Free Choice Act …a re-post from 6/09
3100 Companies, Including Wal-Mart, Sign Letter To Congress Opposing EFCA By Brian Beutler –
May 14, 2009, 5:51PM Over 3000 members of the nearly three million-member strong Chamber of Commerce have sent a letter (PDF) to Congress expressing “strong opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act.” EFCA has three provisions, each of which we oppose. The first provision would require union recognition based on authorization cards signed by a majority of employees. This provision would allow organizing to be conducted in secret, would effectively eliminate the secret ballot election, and would hinder or even eliminate an employer’s ability to tell its side of the story and correct misleading union rhetoric. Card check recognition also would effectively disenfranchise employees who oppose unionization and, as courts have repeatedly recognized, is inherently less reliable than traditional election processes for determining whether employees wish to have union representation. The second provision would enable a union seeking a first contract to require the employer to enter into binding interest arbitration if a collective bargaining agreement were not reached within as little as 130 days…. The third provision would significantly increase penalties on employers for certain violations of labor laws. That’s just about every provision of the bill. On the one hand, 3100 signatories represents a very, very small percentage of the Chamber’s members. On the other hand, there are a lot of big names on this list, including General Electric and, crucially, Wal-Mart. And there’s little doubt that the business community is pulling out all the stops on EFCA. On the third hand, the letter itself runs one page, and the list of signatories goes on for 30 more. And that strikes me as a huge waste of paper.
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Guns … consealed weapons? crossing state lines…
EDIT: 7/22/09 Congress decided to vote down this effort by 2 votes !!!!!
Congress should not be voting yes to allow people to carry guns across state lines … the Police should be the only people being able to cross state lines with a gun !!! and assault weapons should never never be in the hands of civilians at all
no civilian should be able to carry a gun across state lines … legally or not … this is just an absurd idea !!!
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E news and MJ …i still have questions…
watched and listened to numerous specials on Michael Jackson… not sure when they were done but most of them sounded like not only did they dislike MJ but most seemed intent on destroying MJ … during his memorial… it was noted by at least one reporter that the lapd did not like MJ… the enews show sounded like not only were reporters after him with malice but the lapd, specifically Santa Barbara seemed to be just as determined to take MJ down, chase him out of town , whatever it took to get him out of their district, well, kids and parents do lie, people do extort, people do take advantage of the rich and some of them could have been friends … i agree that MJ made bad choices and no i would not let my child stay there either because age does matter but i am still suspicious of the claims … prosecutors seemed to be working with others to bring this man down…. how can we trust that lapd will uphold their duties? after his death… i have to wonder how biased feelings make people behave.
it took over a half hour for MJ to get help from the time of the call, how long was it from when he quit breathing… where did the Doctor go, why didn’t security say MJ?, or the address? then the ambulance did not come right away … why didn’t they lock-down the property?
it’s 2009 and you can still hear the anger in the voices of various reporters and journalists who thought they knew this man and the life he led… depicted him as a pervert, freak and other stupid things … an investigative journalist stated the people of Cali did not like MJ … the police, some political folks wanted his family to pay for services normally taken care of by the City … the acting mayor stated a need for donations because the city didn’t have the money, now we find out the mayor was out of town, came back and put a stop to the website…wasn’t anyone else offended by it all? why did the acting mayor ask for money?, a councilman demands AEG pay for it all and some others show such animosity? all well before the memorial … unbelievable
gotta wonder how the past of a man the police, prosecutors, reporters and others so determined to nail as guilty guide their own behavior toward a man dying or dead.
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