GOP Candidate Proposes Abolishing the National Labor Relations Board

GOP Candidate Proposes Abolishing the National Labor Relations Board Posted: 14 Sep 2015 11:45 AM PDT By Doug Porter  Republican Scott Walker’s idea for turning around his diminishing poll numbers is to go big with his anti-union cred. At a speech in Los Vegas, the Wisconsin Governor proposed scrapping the National Labor Relations Board, making right-to-work the default national standard for workplaces, eliminating public employee unions, restricting automatic withdrawal of dues, and forbidding union organizers to access employees personal information.   In other words, he’s declared war. In the perfect world of Scott Walker, the US economy as far as employees are concerned would completely revert to the 1880’s. Yes, indeedy, get your beggars cups ready to catch whatever crumbs fall off the corporate tables.  [Read more...] shared from San Diego Free Press

Against Work: We Need to Stop Glorifying the Wasting of Our Lives Posted: 14 Sep 2015 05:29 AM PDT By Jim Miller Recently the New York Times did a thorough exposé of life inside Amazon’s “bruising workplace” where the managers celebrate what they call “Purposeful Darwinism.” The focus of the piece was not on the poor folks turning around the goods in the warehouses but on the presumably more privileged white-collar workers who are encouraged to regularly challenge and report on one another when they are not busy answering texts at 3:00 AM or pushing themselves to work 80 hours a week.   In the jungle of Amazon, everyone is subject to this kind of sadistic postmodern Taylorism, and they have the choice to either like it or leave.  Of course, only a fraction of those who start at Amazon stay for any length of time, but that is all OK according to the good folks there because their survival of the fittest model helps them keep only the best.     [Read more...]

The ACLU Beat: Do You Know the Way to Escondido? Posted: 14 Sep 2015 05:27 AM PDT By David Loy I became legal director for the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties in April 2006. In August, Escondido became one of the first cities to propose a ban on renting homes to unauthorized immigrants. So much for a quiet start to the new job. That autumn, I wore grooves into the freeway as I worked with Escondido community groups, met with residents, spoke at events, and testified against the ban. After the City Council adopted the ban, I led the team that went to court and won an injunctionagainst it. Since then, I’ve never had to worry about forgetting the way to Escondido. Besides the ACLU’s advocacy for immigrants’ rights and civic participation, I’ve held the city accountable for First Amendment violations such as stifling the right to videotape checkpoints, terminating a social service agency’s contract in retaliation for its speech, and enforcing a restrictive ordinance that stifled rallies and demonstrations.   [Read more...]

Carlsbad City Council Backs Caruso Bogus Claims Posted: 14 Sep 2015 05:27 AM PDT Strawberry Fields Not Threatened by Vote By Richard Riehl Caruso Affiliated's latest glossy mailer features the smiling faces of the five city Council members who voted unanimously to approve the developer's plan to build a Strawberry Fields mall. Directly below the beaming politicians is the plea, Don't let outside interests end the Strawberry Fields and take away what's ours, followed by the command, DON'T SIGN THE PETITION. You're invited to "get the facts" from a link to Caruso's corporate marketing campaign. You'd think our public officials would refer us to the city's website, where you can find unbiased documents related to the developer's plan, like Prop D, passed by the voters in 2006, and the entire Agua Hedionda South Shore Specific Plan (AH-SP). So I went to the city's website, where I found this. "The City of Carlsbad did not sponsor the initiative and, by law, no public resources may be used to advocate for or against an initiative or referendum."   [Read more...]

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