Card Check: Dancing With The Pseudo-Stars
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 by AdminUnion officials have scraped together 47 “stars” pushing the Employee Free Choice Act. We quote “stars” because it’s sort of like finding a couple old B-actors, giving them a script, and putting the whole thing online. We won’t bother you with the actual video because it’s not particularly noteworthy.
But we did like this general response by reason.tv editor Nick Gillespie, writing at reason’s Hit and Run blog:
Most fundamentally, the latest push for unionization uber alles is missing the boat that the nature of work, especially in the private sector, has changed. The whole labor-management split doesn’t make the sense it may have 80 years ago. Even public-sector workers don’t want their compensation to be tied to the least productive of a group. Etc. For those and many other reasons, unionism is being revealed as a historical phenomenon, not a forward-looking trend.
Associated Builders and Contractors certainly believes that much of the current debate misses the reality of the modern workforce and workplace.
