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"CWA, America's largest communications and media union,
represents over 700,000 men and women in both private and
public sectors ..." -excerpt from cwa-union.org/news website-
CWA Local 4309
Communication Workers of America
Local 4309
2728 Euclid Ave, Suite 300
Cleveland, Ohio 44109
Main Phone #: 216-579-4309
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The Corporation: A Documentary
(info trailer/DVD available at www.Amazon.com)
Capitalism: A Love Story
(the trailer for the DVD of a
Michael Moore Documentary
available at www.Amazon.com)
United We Stand:
A History of Labor Unions
Union History & Facts
Enterprise of a Thousand Tears
(history of child labor in the U.S.)
NIKE Sweatshops:
child labor overseas
When multi-national corporations were no longer allowed to abuse workers and use slaves, indentured servants, illegal immigrantsm, child workers, or low wage female workers in the U.S., they had to find a new source of low cost, low wage, low maintenance workers, desperate workers in third world countries in order to find their huge profit margins for investors and officer bonuses.
According to Milton Friedman Exonomic theory, a corporation has no moral or social responsibility, only a responsibility to its investors to maximize profits at any cost.
Rachel Maddow Show:
EFCA
Employee Free Choice Act
and Union Busting
Confessions of a Union Buster
Union Busting 101:
Episode 1
Union Busting 101:
Episode 2
Union Busting 101:
Episode 3
Union Busting 101:
Episode 4
YouTube Videos of Interest to Union Members
including History of Labor Unions
A Brief History of
Big Corporations and Job Creation in the U.S.
First some facts about the mission and purpose of corporations according to Milton Friedman economic theory.
Small and Mid Size Corporation CEOs, owners and investors have to face their workers and sometimes work side by side with them. Their workers become like family. Officers often know worker's family members and grow to care what happens to them. They treat workers as fairly as possible depending on competitve conditions.
Milton Friedman economic theory states that corporations have no social or moral responsibilities and only have a responsibility to their investors to maximize profits at any cost .. often by cutting the work force and pressuring remaining employees into higher, more stressful production where mistakes are more likely to happen. Mistakes or low production then are the named cause for firing another employee from the payroll and increasing profit margins.
What happened to profits from innovation, a better product, better marketing and salesmanship, inspired increased production from workers who want to do the best job possible for a caring boss and company?
Corporations and Corporate minded businessmen are not in the business of creating jobs. Jobs and workers are a necessary evil and an expense to be cut to the bone.
Corporations only need as few employees as necessary to meet consumer demand for products and services. Why would they want even one more employee than they have to have on the payroll.
So when a political candidate says they are a businessman and know how to create jobs, that may be partly true, but ttheir heart is focused on profits and cutting employee numbers and jobs to as few as possible.
Big Corporations want the fewest employees as possible to meet consumer demand at the lowest wages and benefits possible, with the most control over their hours and productivity as possible. They find these low wage desperate workers in third world countries and move their factories overseas to acquire the largest profit margin possible for their investors, and largest bonuses for officers.
Share the wealth is not in their vocabulary.
Big corporations support campaigns for political candidates that will put legislation in play for them that will give corporations the best opportunity to increase profit margins.
Bad trade legislation has been written allowing large U.S. Corporations to move their operations overseas and import their products back into America.
This miean moving good jobs overseas so wages are cut which results in less consumer demand in the U.S. Every time a consumer buys a product made overseas, money leaves the country which results in less U.S. consumer demand, therefore more U.S. businesses fail, businesses that cannot compete against third world country costs of making goods,
That results in U.S. business closings and less U.S. jobs.
We have a holel in the bottom of our U.S. economic ship called bad trade legislation causing money to flood out of our country.
Supposedly, our exports were going to match the value of imports to balance this out. We have a trade deficit of about a trillion dollars and our good U.S. workers are out of work and suffering. Our good and loyal small and mid size businesses cannot compete and are also suffereing and closing.
Republican leaders say get rid of regulations, cut taxes on business and investors, create a business friendly work environment and we can compete with imports.
First, cutting regulations will cost jobs created in the industries that provide regulation and equipment. Cutting regulations will also cut the protections government provides to our consumers, workers, communities, and environment. Just because thrid world countries don;t protect their citizens doesn't mean we shouldn't.
Second, cutting regulation costs, tax costs and labor costs will not result in more U.S. jobs. Remember ... no added consiumer demand, no need for extra employees. So all that money saved becomes corporate profits and officer bonuses, not jobs for workers.
And no matter how business friendly we get, meaning cutting wages below minimum wage, cutting benefits, requiring longer hours and more productivity with no union or government interference ... our U.S. workers will never be able to compete with the pennies a day wages paid to third world country labor.
... at least not without fixing trade legislation and that will take a mighty sword, an overwhelming Democratic progressive majority in the House and Senate to ever pass good trade legislation to create an even playing field for our U.S. businesses and workers.
So lets now review the history of big corporations and job creation.
- Slavery
- Indentured Servitude
- Illegal Immigrant labor
- child labor
- low wage female workers
- abusive low wage worker
environments before
unions got the support of
the government creating
the U.S. Department of
Labor and labor laws to
protect workers
- moving manufacturing and asssembly jobs overseas to low wage desperate workers
including child labot
- attempts to end collective bargaining in republican run states
- attempts to end unions by cutting public union work force numbers under guise of balancing the budget
- attempts to further cut union membership by cutting postal service officers and workers, one of the largest unions in the U.S.
One big corporate lobbyist said that his goal was to starve government of taxes so much that it would become small enough to drown it in a bathtub, thereby getting government protections for citizens out of their way to increase profits. A republican strategist was also heard to say that if they could get rid of unions, the largest supporting body for democratic political candidates, then they could also get rid of the democratic party.
Backroom talk and worries are always about citizen uprisings and revolts that must be ignored or downplayed by their corporate owned media or must be crushed by their political influence via police or national guard where necessary.
Are these really the people we would want running our government for we the people?.
Scroll to the bottom of this page to view the five youtube videos from Confessions of a Union Buster. It is very informative.
Union buster look for any point of fear in union members or those organizing to cause chaos amongst the workers.
They will use legal and illegal means, whatever it takes to stop workers from organizing and to keep existing unions from being effective by pitting members against each other using race differences, cutting workers to cut union operating budgets, creating chaos and fights amongst members whenever possible including spreading rumors that they know will cause members to distruct each other and the union stewards and officers.
The company is also advised to play the godd guy, bad guy routine with supervisors on the first level as the bad guys and higher ups as the workers friend.
The book is available thru Amazon but it's current price is about $163.00 ... ouch!
Type "union busting" in the google search engine and you will find listing for firms engaged in union busting for hire. Their website will also show you some of the methods they use to stop organizing efforts or to cause chaos in existing unions to make them ineffective.
Excerpts from Confessions of a Union Buster
on YouTube
shown at the
bottom of page.
Very Informative!!!
