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PMA Locked Out!! SF 10/10

by mark (mark [at] linefeed.org)
San Francisco's activist community came out early this morning to support the ILWU dockworkers and protest the fascist Taft-Hartley injunction, staging a Lock Out on the PMA Headquarters at 550 California Street.
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§Banner Drop
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§Workers Get the Taft
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§Locked Out
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Employees were forced to enter through the parking garage.
§U locks and chains
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§PMA Locked out
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§PMA Locked out
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§550 California St
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§Citizens Arrest
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Building requests a citizens arrest of the protesters
§Flexicuffs
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§Mike Dolan is apprehended
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§Kevin Danaher
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by bov
Excellent Mark and everyone!!!!

This is really important work!!

Beautiful.
by Sam B.
Bov thinks its real swell to break the law.

You don't like the Taft-Hartley Act, bov? OK, lets kill all those special-privlege laws for unions.

Long live right to work laws.
by Vincent St. John
Come on, fess up--are you a junior or senior in high school? And does your daddy work for that bullshit "right-to-work" special interest group? And be honest, where do they get their money--from "dues" of worker members? Did you start a chapter in your high school? And how fucking educated are you numbnuts? No much to always post what someone else has written!

The Saint

by Rob
Name one special-privlege law that unions enjoy. There are none. There is the Wagner Act, that was designed to regulate worker activism so that it does not interfere with commerce, there is the Taft-Hartley amendment which is obviously not a "union special-privlege" law. There is the Labor Management and Disclosure Act, which requires unions to disclose financial records, a good law to protect union members but hardly a special privlege. If you think that Management does not have the upper hand in any dealing with it's employees, through a union or otherwise, then you are completely ignorant. And Right to Work, when the consertives announce that anyone can enjoy a country club without having to pay for it, then I will renounce my discust with Right to Work laws. Fact is, the unions are required to represent all the people that are in the bargaining unit weather they are paying members or not, they cannot descriminate by law. I guess that is another special-privlege.
by Sam B.
What's the matter, Vince? Can't bring yourself to think, to apologize for threatening people, to recognize that your ideology has been swept into the dust bin of history?

Thought not.

Whine onwards, Vince.
by Sam B.
Here's your list, Rob:

Big Labor’s Top Ten Special Privileges

Labor union officials enjoy many extraordinary powers and immunities
that were created by legislatures and the courts. Union officials
claim to rely on the support of rank-and-file workers. Yet, they
clamor in the political arena to secure and expand their
government-granted powers, including the powers to shake down workers
for financial support and even to wage campaigns of violent
retaliation against non-union employees.

The following list of special privileges reveals the extent to which
union bosses have rigged our nation’s labor laws in their favor.

Privilege #1: Exemption from prosecution for union violence. The
most egregious example of organized labor’s special privileges and
immunities is the 1973 United States v. Enmons decision. In it, the
United States Supreme Court held that union violence is exempted from
the Hobbs Act, which makes it a federal crime to obstruct interstate
commerce by robbery or extortion. As a result, thousands of incidents
of violent assaults (directed mostly against workers) by union
militants have gone unpunished. Meanwhile, many states also restrict
the authority of law enforcement to enforce laws during strikes.

Privilege #2: Exemption from anti-monopoly laws. The Clayton Act of
1914 exempts unions from anti-monopoly laws, enabling union officials
to forcibly drive out independent or alternative employee bargaining
groups.

http://www.nrtw.org/d/big_labor_special_privileges.htm

Privilege #3: Power to force employees to accept unwanted union
representation. Monopoly bargaining, or “exclusive representation,”
which is embedded in most of the country’s labor relations statutes,
enables union officials to act as the exclusive bargaining agents of
all employees at a unionized workplace, thereby depriving employees
of the right to make their own employment contracts. For example, the
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935, the Federal Labor
Relations Act (FLRA) of 1978, and the Railway Labor Act (RLA) of 1926
prohibit employees from negotiating their own contracts with their
employers or choosing their own workplace representatives.

Privilege #4: Power to collect forced union dues. Unlike other
private organizations, unions can compel individuals to support them
financially. In 28 states under the NLRA (those that have not passed
Right to Work laws), all states under the RLA, on “exclusive federal
enclaves,” and in many states under public sector labor relations
acts, employees may be forced to pay union dues as a condition of
employment, even if they reject union affiliation.

Privilege #5: Unlimited, undisclosed electioneering. The Federal
Election Campaign Act exempts unions from its limits on campaign
contributions and expenditures, as well as some of its reporting
requirements. Union bigwigs can spend unlimited amounts on
communications to members and their families in support of, or
opposition to, candidates for federal office, and they need not
report these expenditures if they successfully claim that union
publications are primarily devoted to other subjects. For years, the
politically active National Education Association (NEA) teacher union
has gotten away with claiming zero political expenditures on its IRS
tax forms!

Privilege #6: Ability to strong-arm employers into negotiations.
Unlike all other parties in the economic marketplace, union officials
can compel employers to bargain with them. The NLRA, FLRA, and RLA
make it illegal for employers to resist a union’s collective
bargaining efforts and difficult for them to counter aggressive and
deceptive campaigns waged by union organizers.

Privilege #7: Right to trespass on an employer’s private property.
The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 (and state anti-injunction acts)
give union activists immunity from injunctions against trespass on an
employer’s property.

Privilege #8: Ability of strikers to keep jobs despite refusing to
work. Unlike other employees, unionized employees in the private
sector have the right to strike; that is, to refuse to work while
keeping their job. In some cases, it is illegal for employers to hire
replacement workers, even to avert bankruptcy. Meanwhile, union
officials demonize replacement workers as “scabs” to set them up for
retaliation.

Privilege #9: Union-only cartels on construction projects. Under
so-called project labor agreements, governments (local, state, or
federal) award contracts for construction on major projects such as
highways, airports, and stadiums exclusively to unionized firms. Such
practices effectively lock-out qualified contractors and employees
who refuse to submit to exclusive union bargaining, forced union
dues, and wasteful union work rules. So far, just three states have
outlawed these discriminatory and costly union-only pacts.

Privilege #10: Government funding of forced unionism. On top of all
of the special powers and immunities granted to organized labor,
politicians even pour taxpayer money straight into union coffers.
Union groups receive upwards of $160 million annually in direct
federal grants. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In 2001, the
federal Department of Labor doled out $148 million for “international
labor programs” overwhelmingly controlled by an AFL-CIO front group.
Federal bureaucrats spend approximately $2.6 billion per year on “job
training programs” that, under the Workforce Investment Act, must be
administered by boards filled with union officials. Union bosses also
benefit from a plethora of state and local government giveaways.

http://www.nrtw.org/d/big_labor_special_privileges.htm
by Wild Bill
Yea Let's get rid of all the laws that benefit organized workers.

Let's eliminate the laws against secondary boycotts, sympathy strikes and hot cargoing and see how fast the right to work for less folks start screaming.
by Wild Bill
Yea Let's get rid of all the laws that benefit organized workers.

Let's eliminate the laws against secondary boycotts, sympathy strikes and hot cargoing and see how fast the right to work for less folks start screaming.
by Wild Bill
Yea Let's get rid of all the laws that benefit organized workers.

Let's eliminate the laws against secondary boycotts, sympathy strikes and hot cargoing and see how fast the right to work for less folks start screaming.
by try again
Let's eliminate the laws prohibiting sympathy strikes, secondary boycotts and hot cargo contract provisions and watch the right to work for less crybabies start wailing on the need for labor law.
by Sam B.
The only crybabies here are you union lowlifes who don't want their special privleges I listed taken away.

by The Saint
Come on Sam, fess up to what kind of work you--or your mom and dad--do. Do you work the photocopy machine at that lame right-to-work group? Or flip burgers at McD's and dream of the day when you'll own you own franchise and then it will be payback time as you'll Sadisticly make the worker's lives hell. You sound like you'd be a real "Little Shop of Horrors" of fastfood. Well, what is it?

Vince
by Sam B.
Poor vince, you still can't quite come up with anything to say. No wonder, you have no defense for all that's wrong with unions and why they are dying.

And your so chicken not to anger your buddies bby withdrawing death threats that you made.

Did they put you up to it, Vince, or else?

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