Karl Rove coming to Clayton to stump against EFCA
JEFFERSON CITY — Bush and Rove back together again. Well, sort of anyway.
William H. T. “Bucky” Bush (uncle of former President George W. Bush) and the Missouri Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a fund-raiser to help the Chamber fight the Employee Free Choice Act, and former Bush strategist Karl Rove is the keynote speaker.
The July 15 event is at the St. Louis Club in Clayton and will cost $1,000 to get in. Chambers of Commerce nationally have opposed the EFCA, suggesting that the act will eliminate secret ballot elections when employees organize unions.
The bill doesn’t eliminate the secret ballot, but takes away the employer mandate, and makes other regulatory changes that tilt the union forming process in labor’s direction. Unions argue that under the current system, employers face no legitimate repercussions for intimidating employees against forming unions.
The bill has been the labor movement’s top priority as Democrats took control of Congress and the White House, but it has stalled because of stiff opposition.
sorry that second paragraph should have pointed out that Nissan posted more than 2.4 billion in losses and Toyota posted 7 billion in losses.
You are the perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black. (lol). I just could not help myself in pointing out that.
Karl Rove is a smart guy. He knew that he was formulating a campaign that would lead our country into a war in Iraq on false pretenses. He thought that people wouldn’t care because the war would be so great. His actions will harm our country for a long, long time. It’s a real shame that anyone would pay anything to listen to him say anything.
What’s even worse is how many people have bought the line that the employee free choice act is an undemocratic bill. The right to freely associate is protected by the First Amendment and fundamental to our democracy. Corporate lawyers and money have succeeded in making the freedom of association out of reach for all but 8% of America’s private sector workers. As a result, NONE of the economic growth that happened while Karl was in the White House was kept by the working people whose labor created it through increased productivity. ALL of that wealth went to back to Wall Street before it vanished in the smoke and mirros of the crash.
Every time I read posts on the “political fix” I worry about the survival of our species. Are we really the people who are informed?
How does this fit in with the ‘Save Our Secret Ballot’ campaign launched a few weeks ago? They’re pushing for a state constitutional amendment. MissouriNet reported that 40,000 signatures have been collected so far. Sounds like they’re going to make it on the ballot in 2010.
Congressman Akin gave an EFCA briefing to the business community in Chesterfield last week, too.
Karl Rove should leave this alone. We can fight for our secret ballot rights without his help, thank you very much.
http://www.sosballot.org/state.php?state=Missouri
Interesting stuff!
Here is the link to an interesting card check story:
http://learfield.typepad.com/missourinet/2009/07/no-short-message-in-this-post-card-delivery.html
Oops above was for dr-debunk regarding his comments to Garrison.
The St. Louis Club is a luncheon club located in Clatyon, not a Country Club. The St. Louis Country Club is a Country Club, but is located in Lade, not St. Louis, or Clayton.
“At least everyone can see what a fool looks and sounds like”.
D.Bunkery 7/8/09 3:47 pm.
You hit the nail on the head Bunk.