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10/13/10
Beck Rights tame Teamster thugs
Workplace bullying should not be toleratedTwo Syosset, N.Y.-based bus drivers have filed federal charges against a local Teamster union for refusing to recognize, without condition, their constitutional right to refrain from formal union membership and instead are intimidating independent-minded workers who exercise that right.(from nrtw.org)
With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, the two Acme Bus Corp. drivers filed the charges late last week with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Brooklyn.
Teamsters Local Union 1205 officials are failing to acknowledge without condition the workers’ rights to refrain from formal, full dues-paying union membership established under Foundation-won precedent in the Supreme Court case Communication Workers v. Beck. Instead, Teamster Local 1205 union bosses are forcing nonmember employees to sign a self-disparaging letter characterizing themselves as “dues complainers.”
Ironic collective bargaining snafu
An argument for deauthorization, privatizationIrony alert.(from foxnews.com)
The American Postal Workers Union has extended its internal election after thousands of ballots appeared to have gotten lost . . . in the mail.
The union's election committee was supposed to be counting those ballots this week in downtown Washington, D.C., following a tradition mail-in election. But the union announced that only about 39,000 ballots were turned in -- and that "a large number of union members had not received their ballots."
As Federal News Radio first reported, the union has responded by extending the deadline to Oct. 14.
Workers now have until close of business Thursday to ask for a new ballot. It's unclear whether the mail mix-up will become an eleventh-hour campaign issue.
The union of postal clerks is separate from the National Association of Letter Carriers, which comprises postal workers who deliver the mail.
O-Culture NewsBusted Again
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon - Saul AlinskyVideo:
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Italy, Test Ban, Sidney Webb
On this day: October 13The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany (1943)
Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction (1977)
The U.S. Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (1999)
President Obama gives a statement thanking U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe, and thirteen Democratic Senators on the Senate Finance Committee for approving the ObamaCare bill (2009)
b: Ari Fleischer (1960); d: Jozef Tiso (1887), Sidney Webb (1947), Gus Hall (2000)
Community Organizing for the New Progressive Era
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