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Employee Rights in the Age of Incompetence

by John Richardson on January 31, 2009

If you were to believe the commercials in television these days, corporations care about working people and want to ensure that they have the right to vote. This is a relatively sophisticated approach crafted by the pretty boys and girls in the corporate PR departments who discovered that they could graduate from college with a communications degree by packaging their bullshit for pay.

While American jobs vaporize by the hundreds of thousands each week, Americans are bombarded with the message that if the Employee Free Choice Act were to be passed by Congress and enacted into law by the President, workers would be denied the right to choose unionization.

Here is a different perspective on this question put out by American Rights at Work:

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Zimbabwe: Trade Unions Speak Out

by John Richardson on April 9, 2008

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At a meeting of the COSATU and ZCTU  on Tuesday – two leading trade unions in southern Africa - a statement was issued in regarding the elections held in Zimbabwe last week. The Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions held the meeting to receive a report from the ZCTU on the current political crisis in Zimbabwe.
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