Comments on: SEANC Thanks Hagan for Supporting Worker Intimidation

By: clarence d. cole

clarence d. cole — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:21:03 +0000

Someone had better do something about this insurance i worked for tthe State for 42 yrs. Do not draw enough to make ends meet, now you want the rest of it to go for Ins. and pay less . Medicare pays every thing now .they do pay good for medecine, that is ALL.
Thank you
Clarence

By: Panacea

Panacea — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:10:47 +0000

I won’t argue there were problems with the card check system. But unions leveled the playing ground for workers. Even here in North Carolina it is harder for an employer to say to a worker, “Shut up and do your job, there’s ten men waiting for yours if you don’t.”

Worker intimidation by employers takes a much more insidious role: performance evaluations. A manager who doesn’t like an employee can just write, “not a team player,” and either fire or deny pay raises to employees without providing a shred of proof other than an opinion.

Management can ignore worker complaints about safety with impunity.

Unions have their uses. They can make management listen to employees, and insist on fair treatment and pay.

Unions did go too far at one point, which is why a lot of people left unions. Unions are waking up and becoming more responsive to their members, and willing to work with employers.

Eventually, North Carolina will unionize, whether with elections or card check. It’s not a bad thing, unless you are an employer who doesn’t want to stop exploiting workers.

By: Modeen Gunch

Modeen Gunch — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:27:06 +0000

By the e-mail you would think that SEANC members had no formal education at all and needed all this guidance from kindergarten teacher LeCount in order to write a letter.

It would have much easier to have had SEIU staff write the letter at the SEANC office and send it out for signatures.

But, Dana (Stern) Cope understands state employees and will lead his 50% + 1 straight to the pits of Union hell.