James D Hill
DP Veteran
- Joined
- May 7, 2012
- Messages
- 6,984
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- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Very Liberal
Conservatives seem to hate anything that gives workers power to hold employers accountable for bad behavior. They have always hated labor unions and over the last 25 years wadged a war against labor unions and for the most part they have won that war. Thay have accused unions of driving up wages and the cost of living. Some of that I agree with. Greed has corrupted labot as much as business. I say you need collective bargening when wages are going down just as much as when they are going up and someone has to stand up for workers.
Now the GOP is going after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). They have filibustered every nomination both conservative and liberal to fill the leadership post in the NLRB. This is cowarldy because they know they would lose the debate to shut the NLRB down so they use the cowardly act of abusing the filibuster to get their unpopular way. What a bunch of right wing hacks.
So what is it the right wing really wants? For workers to have no rights at all other than to quit your job? Thats what it looks like to me. They seem to want to go back to the days when the robber barons could do anything they wanted to their workers. We all know the GOP has been lap dogs for big business since the industrial revolution started but this new breed of conservatives seems to want to return this country to the bad old days of no anti trust laws and workers being basically slaves. Am I wrong?
Now the GOP is going after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). They have filibustered every nomination both conservative and liberal to fill the leadership post in the NLRB. This is cowarldy because they know they would lose the debate to shut the NLRB down so they use the cowardly act of abusing the filibuster to get their unpopular way. What a bunch of right wing hacks.
So what is it the right wing really wants? For workers to have no rights at all other than to quit your job? Thats what it looks like to me. They seem to want to go back to the days when the robber barons could do anything they wanted to their workers. We all know the GOP has been lap dogs for big business since the industrial revolution started but this new breed of conservatives seems to want to return this country to the bad old days of no anti trust laws and workers being basically slaves. Am I wrong?