IN RESPONCE TO A COMMENT

some one commented on the beatdown blog that  they have been working here for years and that they have worked for a union in the past.. no one is saying that there are some unions that SUCK and there are some that are good.... it is all about who is reprisenting them.. look at UPS without a doubt that is a great job. Why without a union they would be a bunch of over worked underpayed truck drivers that didint have shit for benifits, in brown. before you spout off MAYBE YOU SHOULD DO SOME RESEARCH ON YOUR OWN. stop acting like a sheep and following the ones who dont want it... and if it is not going to change things in our favor why are they fighting it so hard? to save us union dues???? they dont mind freezing raises and taking 15 min away evey shift... that equals your union dues right there. THIS IS ALL ABOUT JOB SECURITY. to protect the ones that do there job well and still end up on the chopping block.... DO SOME RESEARCH....... thanks

IT IS NOT JUST US ITS ALL OVER THE USA GIC

Well by now Im sure you have read the Topix of Golden Living Center Employees Fired.  If not please go to their site and read. http://m.topix.com/forum/city/stanford-ky/TNAGL918M77BGVSN.  Isn't it amazing, that facility is going through what ours is.  They were not trying to organize a union.  They were just asking for better care, treatment.  "Fired for no reason" stated they were doing the same thing in the GIC of Maryland and replacing them with Foreign staff.   "Uracrybaby"  who sounds a lot like the "outsider who was on our blog.  Was down right nasty like the outsider stated "that GIC was stem celling Mackacks monkeys to work for them, because all they wanted was Chaquita banana's.  Sound Familiar.  "Cali and Imo" stated The corp knew exactly what takes place and they only care if it cost them money or if the state gets called. Sound Familiar.  Take notice that their blogs started in Feb 2011.  Right around the time we started experiencing the problems here.  Take notice the blog ended in Jul 2011. I wonder what happened.  I bet they were all fired.  Just like that great nurse and many other valuable employees here. They didn't fire them because of the Union.  They fired them because they could.  Without representation we call can be fired. You wouldn't go to court without a Lawyer.  You shouldn't go into any of those offices without representation.  Right now resident care (once again) is last on their list.  They are pulling people off the floor 3 or 4 times during their shift, taking away from resident care. Because they are so concerned for you trying to get a union.  What a joke.  They don't care about the residents and you.  We all are just numbers.  LPN's you know each and every one of you will be eliminated.  The nurse we just lost was a LPN.  The job posted is for a RN.  Look at the ratio of RN's vs LPN's. Look at all the new nurses hired in the past 6 months. They are all RN's.  You cant tell me a qualified LPN has not applied.  They are only advertising for a RN.  They will pick on you until you quit.  If your a Die hard they will fire you. Because they can. We are at Will.  The only thing that will give you job security is collective bargaining.  You might think, Oh well, i will just go somewhere else and work. Really!  GIC says their the leading industry in long term care.  The others corp will follow.  In the past their was nothing but LPN's working these facilities. We even got great surveys.  But now you aren't cutting it, They only want RN's It sure is funny how all these RN's are here and the bldg is worse. The corp claims they are loosing money, and we all will feel the impact.  But my my, look at all the money they are paying out to prevent the change we need. 

MEETINGS OF LIES LIES LIES

FOR EVERY LIE THERE IS A LITTLE TRUTH TO MAKE IT BELEIVABLE.

SOUND FAMILIAR:
1. This is same speech THEY HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO GIVE to everyone when THEY can corner them:  I want to talk to you about the union and how bad it is for all of us.  You won't have anymore rights then you do now.

2. All policies will remain the same. 

3.You can still be fired for the same reasons as before.  In fact (laughing) we don't have to have a reason. In fact you can bring the union along and he can watch you get fired.

4.All the union does is charge you dues that are at their discretion and nothing changes.  You don't know how much they will take out of your check.  It is up to them to decide. 

5.It is still the same just like it is now. 

6.Our policies will not change and  the schedules will be the same.  You will not be making policy.  Golden living pays what it pays and if you need something different you need to go somewhere else.

7. The union targets the people on the low-end(meaning the monkeys) because they know the least and have less skills. 

WELL LETS BREAK THIS DOWN:
1. GLC has spent big $$$$ to learn what to say from union busters do you see any NEW NEW people there?  all we want is the right to work without fear of losing our job because they are bitches and u didnt kiss there ass.

2. policies on resident care are going to stay the same!!! but things will change not all things but things will change.

3. yes if you are a bad worker you will eventually get fired.... but if you are a great employee and have a rough spell.. the tigers will not be able to pounce on you  for bullshit ( like some one hear recently).

4.union dues are going to be dues not high this is a big ass union ill pay 20.00 every 2 weeks for protection from someone that is pissy and on there period.

5. we want things better are you saying that things were awsome before all of this i think we was at rock bottom.

6. we shall see.. but if you are hired for a 40/week thats right they need to uphold that policy they cant pick and choose what they want to do to us isnt that getting old.  we have a problems... bring it to the table and come to a comprimise..... this is not a street paved in gold it just unites us for the better. 1 is week 100 is strong and the sched and 12hrs for nurses is NOT POLICY it is a TRIAL that is failing for us and saving them millions over time. and what they are doing is hiring that dont know the diff. kiss your job goodbye.

7. the UPPER managment dont want it because # 1 they are salary and higher is is all about making more money each year, stocks ect..  yes UNIONS are for us on the LOW END weather it be a resident or working in a steel mill IT IS WORK. and im tired of being treated LIKE A " MINDLESS MONKEY "

hmmmm... kinda racist for them to say that...... We have a VOICE it is easily heard the more voices you say it with.... NO managment wants to lie to you so u will be "GOOD TRAINED MONKEYS"

 COMMENTS????? QUESTIONS?????

REMEMBER THE OLD BLOG ....??????

WELL IT IS BACK i did alot of thinking and well when i got the news today that I AM NO MORE and THEY ROBBED ME OF MY VACATION ALL 120hrs I well OVER EARNED I AM PISSED.
it is ok though i hav many people actually wanting me to work for them... think im gonna move up to mgmt to make a difference those who are close ill let you know.. but fuck it remember beatdown blog click there cuz i want to and so we cant forget what they did when they say im sorry i love u please vote NO.....  let me hear you   and  the phone number works for this site and beatdown site 6156695344 please use it and if you have nothing to say  just say hi or fuck u if you are on my fightin side.. see there actions just made things worse. hello search engines.  and BART DURHAM? LABOR BOARD? cant wait to make many calls in am

vote yes for job security  u dont want to be fired for attendance do you?

ATTENTION DEPARTMENT HEADS......... WE CANT ACT LIKE ASSES

Seems like we have had alot of gosh darn meetings!!!! I mean department heads.
Why are we not having meetings if this is so bad. I mean if things are going to be bad,we should be having these OMG OMG WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO...


Think of it this way: we got tired of mommy and daddy beating us even when homework was done and chores complete, so big sister called child protective services.... Now us kiddies don't have to worry about getting yelled at and beat up and put down no more.
Mom and dad are scared cuz they can't beat on us no more! I just wish they were called before little brother didn't make it via there drunk on power scank asses

Union busting from the best.....see man in video on side bar......>

Unionbusting number 101 from a union buster (former)


Fear is there will number one tool they use. without fear there is no unionbusting. It's the union busters lobster caviar its everything to them.
Fear is used :
1. To scare COMPANY INTO BUYING THERE SERVICE.
2. Employees, way of life and their job and their way to make a living for their families.
3. Fear is used in the form of lying taking lying lying lying to get the job done.

ALONG WITH BREAKING THE LAW THE EMOTIONAL ELEMENT OF FEAR IS VITAL. however fear... it's already there how workers unfortunately know that management historically is antiunion so it's a big step for them developed the courage and that's why some of these exposure techniques help a union busters working without the atmosphere is like working with one leg and one arm FEARS ARE ESSENTIAL. AND EVEN IF IT HAS TO BE INSTILLED IT IS A FAVORITE BY UNION BUSTERS. FEAR is a daily diet that they almost thrive on, and the daily diet consists of ignorance fear, greed in ego. I conducted in excess of 200 almost 250 anti-union campaigns that during that same period, I lost only 5 3 of which never got to a contract WE DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE LAW.....
you should know the union busted that there is a practicing unionbusting that can be successful if you doesn't break the law routinely, but I'm not just talking about labor law there have been instances I was about and so myself although I I put it through another layers of my hands were clean but criminal violations if that's what it takes if anything I was destroying the security the family's and well being of working people all over the country. They are not concerned they have no feeling they have no carring about the well-being of the people at the employees in the workplace they are there with one goal and one goal and that is to do whatever it takes however horrific however illegal to destroy the collective spirit. To ensure that the employer remains union free. Even companies that PLEAD POVERTY.. that couldn't afford to even keep some of there current employees want to came to union busting... they found the money and they didn't care how much was. To me I was a kid in the candy store because not only was I incredibly overpaid but whatever I I wish to do I could do and they didn't care when you hire a HITMAN A HIRED GUN you hire that person for a reason this is a reason of destruction, when you do come up against the union buster understand that that person from the onset of his launching his union busting campaign the first words out of his mouth to management is that your employees has declared war on your company...... That is when I become the terrorist

The original takers ahhh did u gets some bad news cocky ones

Well a very interesting day today. Adminstration here. (on a sunday) answering call lights helping out in the dining room! Never ever has that happened before, not even during the week, and a weekend. But you have been forewarned. Remember they will now try and be your best friend. Where were they before. We have burned up their hotline, begging for help. all to a deaf ear. They just dont want us to unionize. Why do you suppose that is? Because the Union is for us. Look us Union. to be one, to be united. This isnt about money. They spend a fortune to keep unions out. This is about control. They dont want you to be a voice. But Our residents need our voice. They have been needing it for sooo long. Dont be fooled. Dont let our residents down. because if we do. When this is all over for us. It will go back to the way it was, and has been for too long. NO CARE. so they can make their budgets all at the residents and your expense. Hang tough. God bless

Here are the facts This is education 101 unions

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2011

1. The U.S. Constitution Protects the Right to Unionize
The U.S. Constitution protects and the U.S. public policy encourages the right of workers to unionize. Despite the corporate media and conservative critics that serve the interest of the wealthy dishonest attempts to demonize organized labor the truth is that the government has the power to regulate and pass laws enforcing labor relations and collective bargaining rights. Moreover, this country embraces those rights as a public policy. If you do not believe me trying doing some homework. Okay, you are too busy to do the homework, then read on because I have done a little of the work you.

It is not my intention to cover the overwhelming statutes, regulations, and court cases that support the proposition that the U.S. Constitution protects workers’ right to collective bargaining and to unionize. No one can handle such a monster size task in a simple blog. I will leave that work to others to perform; however, I will provide you with a brief introduction to the U.S. Constitutional provisions that I believe support those rights. It is my intent to give you enough facts that will help you recognize the lies stated by the corporate media and conservative critics who serve the wealthy in their attempts to bust unions.

Allow me to start-off with an admission that no provision in the U.S. Constitution directly or literally addresses workers’ right to collective bargaining or join unions. However, I hope that we can agree that the U.S. Constitutional does not always literally spell-out every constitutional right we enjoy in this country. People, with at least a fifth grade education, accept the fact that many of our rights have developed over the years by principles of law established by the courts and their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Hence, if we can all agree to the obvious that the absence of direct statutory language does not make an established right any less enforceable or meaningful, then we can move on to those provisions of the U.S. Constitution that Congress and the courts have found to support the right to unionize.

Let us start with the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. No intense research or citations to law or court cases are need to make the equally obvious point that the First Amendment protection us from government infringement of our rights to the freedom of speech and assembly. Although the law does not specifically enumerate every type of individual, group, type of speech, or events covered by the law, Congress qand the courts have broadly applied this law; and, once again, it is no less enforceable oqr meaningful. Therefore, if every person has the right to assemble with people of their cqhoosing, then it naturally follows that workers have the right to form unions. What more need I say?

Next, the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution perqmits Congress to pass laws regulating labor–management relations. The Interstate Commerce Clause in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate inqqterstate commerce, and the U. S. Supreme Court has interpreted this to mean that the government has the power to regulate labor relations. Relying on this law, Congress in the 1930s passeQd the Wagner Act -or the National Labor Relations Act - as we know it today. In passing the Wagner Act, Congress made it very clear that the public policy of the United States favored workers’ rights to unionize and encouraged collective bargaining. Anyone aware of the current attacks against workers will agree that the intent and the public policy reasons as stated by Congress in the 1930s are equally relevant today as they were then. In 1930s, Congress stated as follows:

“The inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract and employers who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership associations substantially burdens and affects the flow of commerce, and tends to aggravate recurrent business depressions, by depressing wage rates and the purchasing power of wage earners in industry and preventing the stabilization of competitive wage rates and working conditions within and between industries."
"Experience has proved that protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce from injury, impairment, or interruption, and promotes the flow of commerce by removing certain recognized sources of industrial strife and unrest, by encouraging practices fundamental to the friendly adjustment of industrial dispute arising out of differences as to wages, hours, or other working conditions, and by restoring equality of bargaining power between employers and employees."
. . .
"It is declared to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the cases of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representation of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection.“
See, the National Labor Relations Act, Section 1, cited as 29 U.S.C. § 151.
In addition, the U. S. Supreme Court has relied on basic due process of law principles of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution to resolve labor-management cases. Of course, the Fifth Amendment guarantees us due process of law at the federal level and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees the same rights at the state and local levels. Federal courts have relied on the these Amendments to uphold laws providing for the establishment of minimum wages, limits on the length of workweeks, requirements to pay overtime, the elimination of discriminatory conduct by employers against workers, and many other rights. For example, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, gender, color, religion, or national origin. Other federal laws prohibit wage discrimination based on gender, age, or disability.

Of course, individual states may pass laws giving workers greater rights than those guaranteed by federal laws, but the Supremacy Clause in Article VII of the U.S. Constitution and the incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment extends these federal protections to the state and local levels. Therefore, a state can never take away federally established workers’ rights to bargain collectively and to unionize.

As I stated above, this was only a brief look into the U.S. Constitution and its provisions that support workers rights to organize, unionize, and collective bargaining. The rest of the homework is up to you to complete but I hope by now you have enough correct information to reject the misinformation out there that workers have no legal rights to bargain collectively or to unionize.
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