Corporate Lobbyist Front Group's Barbara Comstock Blames Unions for Outsourcing

[Amerigo Vespucci]

December 24, 2010 08:31 PM
Corporate Lobbyist Front Group's Barbara Comstock Blames Unions for Outsourcing

By Heather

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/corporate-lobbyist-front-groups-barbara-co



Well, most of the media might be taking the weekend off for the holidays, but you can count on Fox News to keep working and pumping that propaganda out there day in and day out. What would Christmas Eve be without some good old-fashioned union bashing from Republican corporate shill Barbara Comstock?

Comstock is terribly upset about a new rule being proposed by the National Labor Relations Board. More on that from the AFL-CIO's blog.

Proposed NLRB Rule Requires Employers to Post Workers’ Rights:

Most workers have seen notices about their right to a minimum wage or safe workplace posted in the company break room or elsewhere on the job. Employers are required to post those notices by federal law.

But there is no requirement for employers to post any sort of notice about workers’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), including the right to form a union. Now, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is proposing a rule that would require employers to post such notices in the workplace.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says the proposed rule is “a common sense policy needed in today’s workplace.” Every working person in America deserves to know his or her rights… …ensures that workers’ rights are effectively communicated in the workplace. It is necessary in the face of widespread misunderstanding about the law and many workers’ justified fear of exercising their rights under it.

According to the proposed rule, published in the Federal Register, the NLRB believes that many employees protected by the NLRA are unaware of their rights under the statute. The intended effects of this action are to increase knowledge of the NLRA among employees, to better enable the exercise of rights under the statute, and to promote statutory compliance by employers and unions.

More there with some specifics on the proposed rule, so go read the rest. But according to WFI's Comstock, this is going to harm small businesses. She also blames unions for the outsourcing that's gone on in America and pretty well destroyed the economy in places like Detroit. Yeah Barbara, it's not the greedy CEO's or our crappy trade laws that reward companies for shipping jobs overseas or the fact that our health care costs are so high. It's the dirty f#%king hippie union members fault.

[Angry Dragon]

1. I can only hope she gets the Christmas she deserves

[Turbineguy]

2. Those Talking Heads

may want to join a Union soon.