What this is about? Why is this such a big ****ing deal? (nadin is an idiot)

[thundley4]

nadinbrzezinski   (1000+ posts)               Fri Feb-18-11 04:52 PM
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What this is about? Why is this such a big ****ing deal?   
   
Collective Organizing was NOT legal in the US. Unions were NOT legal. Unions HAD to fight for the right to organize and to collectively bargain.

This did not become part of the law until the Wagner Act of 1935. The Wagner Act created the National Labor Relations Board, and allowed unions the right to collectively bargain and to organize. Understand, until that moment this was something that was punishable by prison time. This is what Governor Walker is after, this is what the right wants to destroy. They want to effectively destroy the NLBR by defunding it, and at the state level.

So this is what is at stake... nothing short of the Wagner Act of 1935... one of the crown jewels of the New Deal, the other being Social Secuirty.

Do you understand?

Oh and for some reading on it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act

Basic as can be, but if you have no clue what this is, a good place to start.

SOLIDARITY

To support the strike see my sig.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x450073

From nonothingnadin's link:

The National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act (after its sponsor, Senator Robert F. Wagner) (Pub.L. 74-198, 49 Stat. 449, codified as amended at 29 U.S.C. § 151–169), is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands. The Act does not apply to workers who are covered by the Railway Labor Act, agricultural employees, domestic employees, supervisors, federal, state or local government workers, independent contractors and some close relatives of individual employers.

kentuck   (1000+ posts)             Fri Feb-18-11 05:03 PM
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1. Right on!
   
Thanks!

RegieRocker (1000+ posts)             Fri Feb-18-11 05:03 PM
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2. Hmm were they Illegal?

Thread killer.

[JohnnyReb]

 the crown jewels of the New Deal,....were made of cheap glass.

[AllosaursRus]

federal, state or local government workers

Uh, wouldn't this disqualify those that are protesting right now? I sure like the way he calls it a strike. DUmmies lie, all the time, DUmmies lie!

This is a protest, asswipe, it sure as hell isn't a strike. Heaven help them if they try that shit! I think if they do the Governor is within his rights to fire 'em on the spot! Why do ya think they all called in sick, DUmbass?