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Yes,
The NLRB is broken, but for exactly the wrong reasons mentioned here. Until Unions are forced to accept pay that is reflective of the underlying skills and the pay rates of the competitive labor market, we will continue to see low investment and growth in the country.
Sadly, the only way a company like Stella D’oro can make its point that it can’t afford to pay 3 or 4 times the employee costs of its competition is to eventually move. Even then, people sit there and cry that it is unfair. Unfair that its shareholders suffered losses for about 20 years as the company went from 500 to 130 workers…Unfair that the city lost a solid tax base…
I have to disagree with the above comment. The NLRB is broken because our government is controlled by the corporations and therefore our interests are seldom if ever addressed!
Neither the Democratic or Republican parties have done much to correct this and this should be a wake up call to all of organized labor!
You can bet your pay check that if some major bank or other corporate interest was hurting both political parties would have busted their balls to come up with some kind of bailout or change in the law! When it comes to the interests of workers, the government turns a very deaf ear to our needs.
Obama made a lot of promises to organized labor when he was running for president. I have yet to see any substantial change in this nation’s labor laws. Hello?