Comments on: NIH workers vote to form union

By: wayne

wayne — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:07:33 +0000

Related Stuff:
I live in Michigan, in 2012 we became a Right-to-Work State. Our Governor at the time, was a rino, but he managed to get that through. [“Right-To-Work,” = you do not have to join a union to work at a unionized shop, you are covered under any CBA’s, but you aren’t extorted on a weekly basis. And boy do they HATE those people…]
Fast-forward to March 2023, and our Governor, Field-Marshall Whitmer, who somehow managed to get elected to a 2nd, 4-year term, went full authoritarian (she’s term-limited now) and repealed the Right-To-Work statute. (We now have the dubious distinction of being the first State, in 58 years, to repeal a right to work law.)
So, starting February 2024, anyone in Michigan who works where a union is operating, must join & pay dues, or be fired.
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“American Dope-Growers Union”
Look For the Union-Label
SNL (1975)
https://youtu.be/V2CU1cdTlQE
(1:14)

By: John

John — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:03:06 +0000

Color me surprised that the NIH needs “to improve pay and working conditions, and to bolster its policies and procedures for dealing with harassment and excessive workloads.”

Those poor over-worked harassed NIH research fellows.

I think it’s more likely they know what they said during the pandemic. They know what they did. They know what they sided with. They know what they funded. And they’re worried there may be accountability on the horizon.

By: Ming O'Mongo

Ming O'Mongo — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 22:22:56 +0000

I guess JFK failed to heed FDR’s disdain for the idea of government workers’ unions. Bad idea then, worse idea now.

By: Boobah

Boobah — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:24:29 +0000

It should be noted that the existence of these federal government unions began with a presidential executive order by John Kennedy in the early 1960s that a future president has the ability to cancel.

Just like the DREAMers, I'm sure. Not arguing that it should work that way, just doubtful that partisan judges would let it go.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:37:01 +0000

The government in all forms has had the largest union for many years now.

I do not think government workers should get a union. They already get all the benefits unions fought for from outside the government unions.

By: David M. Cook

David M. Cook — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:16:24 +0000

Just another giant payoff of the democrats to more federal workers, making them into left-wing operatives who then stomp on citizens‘ rights when they fail to follow the socialist agenda! Also, that socialist “hero” FDR was opposed to public-sector labor unions, which make citizens into the “bad guy” during labor disputes.