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If your regional supplement was voted down - now what happens?
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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 1161999" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>The general economic picture is drastically different than it was in 1997. Even here in Louisville, I'm not sure there is as much support for the IBT position as there was in 1997. There are an awful lot of people who work in warehouses around town who would LOVE to have a UPS Worldport job instead. So playing the sympathy card "Poor parttimers being screwed by big company" won't be quite as successful. Around the country, a lot of states have gone right-to-work (right to freeload!) so the union doesn't have quite as much bargaining power.</p><p></p><p>It's a tough row to hoe right now. In Kentucky, remember it was Mrs. Mitch McConnell who spent the 8 years of the Bush administration gutting the NLRB, and it has never recovered, and won't now that the 2010 gerrymandering has pretty much locked in a GOP House majority for the foreseeable future.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Moved political comments to Current Events Forum</p><p><a href="http://www.browncafe.com/forum/f13/conservative-media-outlets-moved-union-issues-forum-351161/" target="_blank">http://www.browncafe.com/forum/f13/conservative-media-outlets-moved-union-issues-forum-351161/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 1161999, member: 4932"] The general economic picture is drastically different than it was in 1997. Even here in Louisville, I'm not sure there is as much support for the IBT position as there was in 1997. There are an awful lot of people who work in warehouses around town who would LOVE to have a UPS Worldport job instead. So playing the sympathy card "Poor parttimers being screwed by big company" won't be quite as successful. Around the country, a lot of states have gone right-to-work (right to freeload!) so the union doesn't have quite as much bargaining power. It's a tough row to hoe right now. In Kentucky, remember it was Mrs. Mitch McConnell who spent the 8 years of the Bush administration gutting the NLRB, and it has never recovered, and won't now that the 2010 gerrymandering has pretty much locked in a GOP House majority for the foreseeable future. Moved political comments to Current Events Forum [URL]http://www.browncafe.com/forum/f13/conservative-media-outlets-moved-union-issues-forum-351161/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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