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2. I haven't read any of the legislation, but from what I have read, all of the free-riding accusations are crap, because the unions *can* negotiate union-only contracts that will not benefit non-union members.

3. Even if the right-to-work laws have their roots in a segregationist movement, THAT IS IRRELEVANT. It's a red herring used to side-track the issue.

To make a comparison, Hitler lead the world's first anti-smoking campaign in nazi Germany. Does that mean everyone who opposes tobacco companies or wants people to quit smoking is therefore a neo-nazi? Of course not.

Shame on everyone who is participating in this b.s. campaign to paint right-to-work supporters as racists.
Posted by Raymond Barrett]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:11:43 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:13:40 -0600 Arkansas Times
Don't be surprised Walmart workers, who already lost the pay supplement to work on Sunday, to find yourself working for regular pay on Christmas Day. There is always December 26th for that turkey, anyway. I assume that time and 1/2 will go next and then we will be only different from China in the length of the workday (that is next) and then pay, i.e., Right to Work For Less. Professionals are already doing it with their electronic leash to the office and having to check mail and reply all week-end long. My son had Friday as a vacation day so he only had one meeting and worked only 4 hours. His only real vacation was when, in Destin, he dropped his phone into a soda cooler. But even there he flew out to a meeting for a day and then flew back.

Ever wonder why Europeans have such long vacations?- The figure that it takes one week to get your head out of the problems you left at work and the last week you are already running through what you have to do when you get back so the only real "vacation" you get is a week or two in the middle. They certainly are smarter in that regard than we are but then again, most wouldn't change their standard of living or medical care for anything offered in the US. Go USA! #37
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:00:56 -0600 Arkansas Times
"From now on, white women and white men will be forced into organizations with black African apes whom they will have to call ‘brother’ or lose their jobs."---Vance Muse

"Eleanor Clubs stood for "$15 a week salary for all nigger house help, Sundays off, no washing, and no cleaning upstairs." As an afterthought, she added, "My nigger maid wouldn’t dare sit down in the same room with me unless she sat on the floor at my feet!"---Ida Darden, Vance Muse's sister.

"Among Vance Muse’s "reactionary enterprises": He lobbied against women’s suffrage, against the child-labor amendment, against the 8-hour workday..."

"Incidentally, Vance Muse’s northern donors — DuPont, Pew, Sloan — were the same core investors in (and board directors of) the first modern libertarian think-tanks of the 40s and 50s, including the Foundation for Economic Education. DuPont, Pew and Sloan funds also seeded the American careers of Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard, among others. In other words, Vance Muse’s funders built the first layer of the libertarian nomenklatura that Charles Koch later took control of — no surprise, since Koch outfits are credited with making the Michigan "right to work" law possible."

All of the above are from the following link.

http://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/right-to-…

And Gyl, don't come back with stories about how unions often black-balled any black members. I am well aware of those histories.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:49:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
It will be interesting to see how many Michigan workers decide the services their union provides are not worth the dues.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:31:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
This correctly suggests far more than racism. And while I would agree racism is a significant tertiary in the right to work root system. The entire plant/cause is about class warfare.


Krishnamurti quote: " exploitation is the essence of violence. "
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:25:38 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:30:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
Earlier in the week I posted a link to a man claiming he saw operatives from Americans for Progress knocking their own tent down. AFP claimed it was union thugs who did it.

"The unedited footage shows “the man who punched Mr. Crowder being knocked to the ground seconds before and then getting up and taking a swing at the comedian,” the Times reported."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12…
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:09:24 -0600 Arkansas Times
1) Arkansas Farm Bureau: The Farm Bureau worked hand-in-glove with Muse to secure passage of both the state's 1943 Anti-Labor Violence Law (also the brainchild of Muse) and the Right to Work Amendment. The pages of its monthly newspaper in the early 1940s are filled with articles and speeches attacking the labor movement, especially the CIO which included some of the remnants of the STFU.

2) Arkansas Free Enterprise Association: A group of planters and businessmen who profited from Jim Crow, Led by John L. Dagett of Marianna, the AFEA was instrumental in passage of Right to Work in 1944. Later it would take the lead in the state's Dixiecrat movement. One of the AFEA's principals, Amis Guthridge, would later stir of much of the nastiness surrounding the integration of schools in Hoxie, Little Rock, and Dollarway.

To be sure, Vance Muse played an instrumental role in reactionary politics in 1940s Arkansas, but he had local allies in the passage of laws intended to keep poor blacks and poor whites poor.
Posted by Pierce]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:27:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/right-to-…

And I don't know how a human rights activist like Kennedy stayed under my radar all these years. He recently died in 2011. In the forties, Kennedy published "Southern Exposure" after infiltrating the Klan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson_Kenne…
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:23:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:23:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Silverback66]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 08:22:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by rudy08]]> Sun, 16 Dec 2012 07:58:10 -0600 Arkansas Times