the universal right to self organize

http://inthesetimes.com/article/13010/a_civil_solution_to_labors_problems/

an application of the rights model to  job site organizing:

"amend the Civil Rights Act to bar discrimination on the basis of exercising the right to unionize, just as employers are currently prohibited from discriminating against employees on the basis of race, gender, religion, marital status, physical ability and – in some jurisdictions – sexual orientation. "

"wronged workers would have recourse to remedies unavailable under current labor law. They would have the right to sue in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages. They would have the right to discovery and a jury trial. They would have the right to seek recovery of attorney’s fees and court costs"

“ '....effectively shift the basic right of an employee to join or organize a union from what has long been conceived of as a collective right to an individual right.
.... in 2009 the National Labor Relations Board took an average of 483 days to decide a wrongful termination case, and its average back-pay award was $5,149. "

Confronted with the prospects of being required to submit to discovery, trial by jury and liability for unpredictable financial judgments, employers would have to consider long and hard the potential risks and costs incurred for each and every individual violation of an employee’s civil rights during an organizing campaign.”

ya baby do it the 'murikin way

  contingent fees...jury trials..... unlimited discovery...

most of all
compensatory AND PUNITIVE  damages

   get those noble trolls
              the ambulance chasers into the scrap !!!

this is a paradigm both  middle ameriks
                                  and the  peoples' Shysters understand

as the link sez:

"...Confronted with the prospects of being required to submit to discovery, trial by jury and liability for unpredictable financial judgments, employers would have to consider long and hard the potential risks and costs incurred for each and every individual violation of an employee’s civil rights during an organizing campaign.”

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of course first
we got a s need for traditional collective activity

on the job !!!!! raise some chaos

possible task:

create a job site corporate rules  disobedience movement
intentional violations of corporate class peace

may need to be bigger and bad-er then  the civil rights movement
                                                                             of the 50's and 60's

the lunch counter model springs to mind

analogy here:

mass  on the job evictions maybe even arrests
                              while shouting "where are my rights....  my wagner rights "

the link  seems implicitly content to lobby congress..... of course it does

building the circus wagon
              before finding the horses to pull it
t
                     regulation  official  union voodoo

(vide the EFCA blanket toss )

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okay now we got lots of decent souls fired
what's the new step two
                      after the job site massacres
                  after we undertake the direct on site action line ?

  "where's our NLRB ?
      we demand  our Wagner rights "

recall :

".... organizers (today)
           as a matter of credibility and conscience,
no longer distribute Your Rights Under the Law palm cards to workers ...."

of course not

 "...the penalties for coercive or retaliatory violations
                          under the National Labor Relations Act
                            are
             
                     virtually unenforceable

                                        serve no deterrent value. "

sooooooooo
seems obvous enough to me
                   attack
                       the NLRB ...no ?

flood em with concentrated  violations
call in the media
bring in bus loads of public pickets
                       not at  job sites
               but at   NLRB hq and branch ops

there must be an uprising here
  not just cloak room hustles

numbers will matter
                              citizen activists
                                          will need to be engaged

in the mind of the people
corporate job sites
   must become the next  'human hell hole'
                                                    corporate Amerika
                                                                 another     "good ole Dixie "