AFL/CIO to layoff workers!

[gizmo1979]

Did anyone else see this in todays paper?How the hell do you go to Corp. x and try to save peoples jobs,while you're laying off your own people?When did the AFL/CIO become irrelevant?This is just plain sad!

[Tux]

1. Companies suck ass

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/11563332.htm

13,000 jobs lost!

[DaveinMD]

2. when union membership declines

this is what happens.

[intheflow]

3. Of course.

Under "right to work" laws, thousands of workers are in unions but not paying dues. Of course the unions have no leverage at the table any more. They have no money, to pay employees or for anything else. And as you know, $$ = POWER.

"Right to Work": http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm

:grr:

[gizmo1979]

5. Isn't the aflcio

the biggest union in the country?Man this is a sad state of affairs.I'm in the UAW and I know we don't have much pull anymore,but I thought the big guys were still viable.

[Joyce78]

4. AFL/CIO

I believe a reference was made regarding this earlier this year ... thinking I've seen it somewhere. Can anyone help me out here? I'm fairly new and don't know how to provide links to articles. Thank you for any instruction.

[gizmo1979]

6. The way I put a link in

is I bookmark the article,and then in my post,I go to the bookmark right click scan down to properties right click,now you should have the highlighted url right click on that copy and then paste it in your post.There's probably easier ways but that's the only way I know.