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We need to be removed from the Railway Labor Act...NOW!
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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 743981" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>Doesn't the term "Civil Rights" inherently include the right(s) to dignity and respect? If you were an 1950's African-American person in some Southern states you were charged a poll tax in order that you might vote. Eliminating Jim Crow laws gave them both dignity, respect, <em>and</em> the right to particpate in the American political process.</p><p> </p><p>It should be a legal right to join a union. What Smith has done to us is similar in concept to the poll tax. We are realistically prevented from joining because of the special FedEx RLA classification, just as blacks were realistically kept from voting. Sure, they could pay and vote, plus deal with the local KKK members hanging around outside the polling place. At FedEx, you just lose your job if you're brave enough to openly advocate for a union. Same difference. Oppression can take many differnt forms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 743981, member: 12508"] Doesn't the term "Civil Rights" inherently include the right(s) to dignity and respect? If you were an 1950's African-American person in some Southern states you were charged a poll tax in order that you might vote. Eliminating Jim Crow laws gave them both dignity, respect, [I]and[/I] the right to particpate in the American political process. It should be a legal right to join a union. What Smith has done to us is similar in concept to the poll tax. We are realistically prevented from joining because of the special FedEx RLA classification, just as blacks were realistically kept from voting. Sure, they could pay and vote, plus deal with the local KKK members hanging around outside the polling place. At FedEx, you just lose your job if you're brave enough to openly advocate for a union. Same difference. Oppression can take many differnt forms. [/QUOTE]
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