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Contact: John Rose
www.agilepeople.org
Agilepeople@comcast.net
Republicans ignore Hewlett Packard's prior unlawful conduct
SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, October 23, 2006
An ex-employee of Hewlett-Packard spin-off Agilent Technologies, claims violations of Americans' rights and corporate corruption flourished under Republicans. John Rose said, "I am outraged at the inability of the Republican led Congress to protect our basic rights as Americans. Many people were shocked by the alleged conduct of Hewlett-Packard in abusing the privacy rights of board members, but this abuse is nothing compared to the unlawful acts HP was found guilty of under CEO Carly Fiorina in 2003." Rose referred to National Labor Relations Board case, 25-CA-28591, in which Hewlett-Packard was found guilty of the unlawful termination of an employee for his pro-union activity. "HP fired a supporter of the Steelworkers union for supposedly being out of his work area...on a day that he wasn't even scheduled to work."
The NLRB concluded this was an obvious violation of law, but only required HP to pay back wages and put a poster on a rarely noticed bulletin board. Commenting on layoffs, then HP CEO Fiorina notoriously said, "no American has a god-given right to a job." Rose counters, "according to the Declaration of Independence and the UN Declaration of Human Rights, we do have certain inalienable rights. One of which is to join together for mutual benefit when our jobs and the strength of our community are in jeopardy." Rose claimed that the Republican controlled National Labor Relations Board required little accountability of HP, signaling that abuse on individual rights was acceptable under the GOP. "Had the Republicans taken firm action the rush to profit at Americans' expense would have ceased." Unfair labor cases are very common and the HP case is not exceptional except that HP claims to be more ethical than most corporations. In 2003, the NLRB investigated 28,700 cases, showing how lightly the law is taken. Rose founded an organization, www.agilepeople.org to fight for high tech employees rights and was noted for his attempt to use company run electronic bulletin boards to organize an independent employee association, winning his case in 2005 against Agilent Technologies.
"The lax enforcement of labor rights allows foreign automakers to build factories that are impossible to organize while our own U.S. corporations like Ford, GM, and Chrysler are forced to buyout good paying American jobs. Small businesses cannot compete with big box stores that abuse labor laws. Small businesses simply don't have the economies of scale that make labor abuse profitable." Rose explained. Rose founded an organization, www.agilepeople.org to fight for high tech employees rights and was noted for his attempts to use company run electronic bulletin boards to organize an independent employee association.
While Republicans ignore the rights of working Americans, the Democrats propose to strengthen them. The Employee Free Choice Act gives American citizens a chance to join together to resist moving jobs to countries with poor standards of living and documented abuses of Human Rights. The EFCA is close to a majority in the House, but is blocked from a fair up-down vote by Congress' Republican leadership. Agilepeople.org encourages voters to show their discontent with the poor leadership and bad choices made by the Republicans and vote for Democratic challengers. The current leadership must be ousted to end the culture of corruption that invades corporate and congressional offices.
Disclaimer: Agilepeople is not endorsed or affiliated with Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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