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Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-02-11 07:13 PMOriginal message Lest We Forget: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a crowd in San Diego October 2, 1935 http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_10_... October 2, 1935 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a crowd in San Diego, asserted the right of all workers to join unions. He said, "It is now beyond partisan controversy that it is a fundamental individual right of a worker to associate himself with other workers and to bargain collectively with his employer."
ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-02-11 07:27 PMResponse to Original message 1. A powerful K&R from Occupied Wisconsin... NGU.
The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.â€
In a little-known letter he wrote to the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees in 1937, Roosevelt reasoned:"... Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations ... The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for ... officials ... to bind the employer ... The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives ..."Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people ... This obligation is paramount ... A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent ... to prevent or obstruct ... Government ... Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government ... is unthinkable and intolerable."
http://www.suntimes.com/business/7926324-420/uaw-ratifies-4-year-pact-with-gm.htmlUpdated: September 28, 2011 2:32PMDETROIT — The United Auto Workers said Wednesday that its members have ratified a new four-year labor agreement with GM that gives workers a $5,000 signing bonus and is expected to preserve or add 6,400 U.S. jobs.It is the first contract for 48,500 GM hourly workers since the automaker’s 2009 bankruptcy and restructuring.{snip}Both Chrysler and GM workers gave up their right to strike over wage and benefit issues as part of their 2009 bankruptcies. Under contract changes approved by UAW members, any wage or benefit issues that cannot be resolved through negotiations would be settled through binding arbitration.
Quote from: formerlurker on October 02, 2011, 06:49:07 PMAnd.....my fellow Nebraskan, who makes a comfortable wage sucking off the taxpayers of Omaha for the labor he does is.....one of those for whom Franklin Roosevelt said didn't need a union.I don't think the taxpayers of Omaha have been getting any labor out of Weeping Steve. He's on a gravy train at their expense.
And.....my fellow Nebraskan, who makes a comfortable wage sucking off the taxpayers of Omaha for the labor he does is.....one of those for whom Franklin Roosevelt said didn't need a union.
