If you can't see the handwriting on the wall with this one then sit home and let us do the dirty work...again, however this has got to be addressed if the working man is ever going to have a voice or even stand a chance again.
The article below exemplifies the corruption in campaign finance reform. What these companies are talking is a conspiracy to control our elections by cutting off funds to get people elected. We, the working class, need a strong EFCA to level the playing field, the only thing we don't have, to assure our voice is heard, is the money being bantered around by those businesses who don't have our best interest at heart.
We need a strong voice to send a message to these folks that this isn't right and we're not going to stand for it. If your congressman doesnt' vote for the EFCA then demand to know why, and ask them why they don't support the working people of America? We need to put pressure on our elected officials too.
We need the EFCA!
Union-business fight could impact campaign donations
By Ian Swanson
Posted: 05/15/07 07:33 PM [ET]
Votes on the Employee Free Choice Act, which labor and business describe as their biggest battleground in years, could have a major impact on political contributions in the 2008 cycle.
Several business groups plan at least to consider withholding contributions through their political action committees (PACs) to candidates who vote for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would make it easier for workers to form unions. That could pose problems from Democrats who voted for the measure, as well as the 13 House Republicans who voted for the bill in March.
"My PAC won’t give money to anyone who’s voting for this bill," said Jade West, senior vice president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW).
Other business groups are less categorical, but they still make it clear that they will look seriously at EFCA votes when making decisions on endorsements and campaign contributions.
Stopping EFCA is the top legislative priority for the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), according to the group’s senior director of legislative affairs, Danielle Ringwood. "ABC members would probably have a very hard time supporting candidates who aren’t in line with our views," Ringwood said.
http://thehill.com/...
We need to support businesses that support us and that realize a strong middle class is what drives our economy. With strong unions as our bargaining voice even non-union shops are forced to raise their work standards.
By BEN SMITH | 3/21/09 10:00 AM EDT
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The business side of the EFCA fight is pushing back hard this morning against reports that three companies, Costco, Starbucks, and Whole Foods could support a tweaked version of the Employee Free Choice Act that would make the sign-up organizing option (derided as "card check") harder. Danny Diaz's morning email calls it a "non-starter" and "even worse" for workers.
Those companies have always been labor-relations moderates -- some Costcos are unionized -- and they really don't speak for the larger community. But a chink in the united front could offer moderate senators cover to sign off on a compromise that gives labor most of what it wants.
http://www.politico.com/...
Strong unions and collective bargaining are what made this country great before and they will again. You want to get this economy going again? Spend those bail out funds on the working men and women, bail them out and see how fast this country turns around!