Jim DeMint, Take Note: Union Rights Enshrined in Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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By Matthew Rothschild, March 4, 2011

Republicans and corporatists have always hated unions. They hated them in FDR’s day, and they hate them today.

They hate them because unions stand in the way of gross exploitation and obscene profit maximization.

If there are no unions around and no government regulation, employers can treat their workers as shabbily as they want and pay them as poorly as they want, and we’d be back to the Grapes of Wrath.

That was paradise for employers, and they want a return ticket.

So I wasn’t altogether surprised the other day when I heard South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint proclaim: “I really don't think that collective bargaining has any place in representative government.”

It’s kind a nice to get it all out in the open, I suppose.

Because this is what we’re up against.

But to give you an idea how off base the DeMinted one is, let me quote from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was passed by the UN in December of 1948 in response to the “barbarous acts” of the Nazis, which included the outlawing of unions.

Article 23, Section 4, reads as follows: “Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.”

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Union rights are human rights.

It says so right there in the most important human rights document on the books, which DeMint, I guess, has never read.

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[Bandit]

1. I'm fairly certain DeMint hates the UN as much or more than Unions

:shrug:

[Skip_In_Boulder]

2. Sounds like a safe bet to me. n/t

[raccoon]

3. He's an ignorant SC politician, what does he know? The sad thing is that many of those who would be

helped by unions in SC are so brainwashed against unions they can't find anything good about them.

[Angry Dragon]

4. So, any state or country that forbids union activity

is in violation of human rights??

Would it then follow that anyone then could sue said state or country for human rights violations??

[blindpig]

5. My Senator ain't gonna be fooled by that commie stuff.

He knows the truth, 'the business of America is business'. And beyond all of the partisan folderol that is what we gotta change.