Most American workers don't have the option of going on strike when their employers make changes to screw their employees, because they don't have a union to go to bat for them.

Consultants on "Union Avoidance" (Union Busting) work to widen America's income disparity

A whole industry has sprung up in the shadows to take advantage of lax federal laws that put unions at a disadvantage when they try to organize workers to form a union. This is an industry that is hard at work, destroying the American Middle Class. Here are a few examples form the "Union Avoidance" industry:

Supervisors Can Keep You Union-Free

Your company wants to remain union free and your front line is made up of supervisors. They interact with employees daily, they represent the company to employees, and they are your most effective communication tool. Yet, when you need them most, when a union organizer comes calling... are they ready?

Your supervisors need to understand unions, union organizers and the issues surrounding a union organizing drive. It's essential if your supervisors are going to help maintain your company's union-free status. "Supervisors Can Keep You Union-Free," is the most comprehensive video series on the subject available today, and has been updated and improved to offer you an unsurpassed supervisory training tool.

The "Supervisors Can Keep You Union Free" training series consists of 5 programs and a training manual and can be purchased as a package or individually:

#1 - "Unions: How they Affect Supervisors, Companies and Employees"
When they find out how much a union can disrupt their work life, supervisors become willing, passionate participants in the union-avoidance campaign. This video lays the groundwork for the series, and gives the audience a taste of life under a union contract.

#2 - "Making Unions Unnecessary"
The best way to win a union campaign is never to have one in the first place. This video shows your supervisors how good, basic management skills can keep a union from ever getting a foot in your company's door.

#3 - "How To Stop Cardsigning"
Once the organizer shows up, your supervisors need to move quickly and confidently to stop the union's momentum.

#4 - "The Union Campaign: Communicating To Employees"
The winner in a union campaign is usually the side that does the best job of communicating to the employees. This video shows your supervisors what they can't do or say...but more importantly, it shows them what they CAN and MUST do and say to beat the union.

#5 -"Getting 'NO' Votes"
An NLRB election date is scheduled, and the union activity increases. In this video, your supervisors see and hear what to expect, how to counter the union, how to promote the company...and how to eventually win the election.

Employee Education

While it is generally true that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," in labor relations, an ounce of prevention can be the cure.

Once card signing has begun or a petition has been filed, the best way to prevent a union from coming into your business is to equip your employees with the information they need to make an informed decision.  We have great confidence in employees and their ability to make sound decisions when presented positively with the facts.  It has been our experience, that when given the true facts about unions, a majority of employees choose to place their confidence with their employer.

American workers desperately need Employee Free Choice Act to give employees the option of having a voice in their workplace through a union. The Far Right tries to claim the Employee Free Choice Act takes away workers rights, but the only employee right the Corporate Aristocracy want is the right to work for less.

The power that the Corporate Aristocracy now exercises over American workers is being threatened by Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, and their support for the Employee Free Choice Act. Judging by the level of hysteria in the business press you'd think Obama and the Democrats are promoting incest and cannibalism.

Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Following this discredited Marxist model, he believes government must step in and redistribute pieces of the pie. That requires massive transfers of wealth through government taxing and spending, a return to the entitlement days of old.

Of course, Obama is too smart to try to smuggle such hoary collectivist garbage through the front door. He's disguising the wealth transfers as "investments" -- "to make America more competitive," he says, or "that give us a fighting chance," whatever that means.

Among his proposed "investments":

* "Universal," "guaranteed" health care.

* "Free" college tuition.

* "Universal national service" (a la Havana).

* "Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families").

* "Free" job training (even for criminals).

* "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels).

* "Free" child care and "universal" preschool.

* More subsidized public housing.

* A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."

* And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.

His new New Deal also guarantees a "living wage," with a $10 minimum wage indexed to inflation; and "fair trade" and "fair labor practices," with breaks for "patriot employers" who cow-tow to unions, and sticks for "nonpatriot" companies that don't.

That's just for starters -- first-term stuff.

Obama doesn't stop with socialized health care. He wants to socialize your entire human resources department -- from payrolls to pensions. His social-microengineering even extends to mandating all employers provide seven paid sick days per year to salary and hourly workers alike.

Imagine the gall of forcing employers to give their workers paid time off for illness!
ALL of those proposals by Obama sound like really good ideas to me.

An American government that treats its citizens like human beings, not profit generating units for the Corporate Aristocracy to use and abuse any way they choose, is full blown Socialism to the editors of Investor's Business Daily.

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that working Americans have watched as their standard of living has declined significantly over the last 27 years. During that time the Corporate Aristocracy flexed its financial muscles to remake the United States Government into something that services the needs of corporate investors over the needs of the American people. When the first modern union busting president, Ronald Reagan took office and the downward slide began. The Corporate Aristocracy gained a great deal of power over working Americans when Clinton signed NAFTA and "Free" Trade became the norm. The power that corporate investors exercise over the Federal Government expanded at a frightening rate when George W. Bush took office. Bush put corporate lobbyists in charge of government departments and the agencies that regulate their industries. Bush has turned out to be THE President most hostile to the interests of American workers (and the America People for that matter) for the last 75 years.

American workers are hurting, and unions have the cure. Lets put the "Union Avoidance" industry out of business by making the Employee Free Choice Act the law off the land. That can only happen when progressives hold the levers of power.

                                            YES WE CAN!

This is the first of a series on American Labor.

crossposted at D-Kos