EMPLOYER ADVANTAGES
By Oliver W. Singleton,
AFL-CIO Director, Region 6
Under the 'free speech' amendment to the Act [Labor
Management Relations Act], it must always be remembered that the
employer has access to captive audience meetings, a complete mailing
list, often an intercommunications system, bulletin boards, and a force
of supervisors who have continuous contact with the workers
What the Employer Can Do
1) He hires an attorney to coordinate his campaign
against the union, to advise him on how to violate freely the law
against his employees fight to decide freely for or against collective
bargaining.
2) He calls together his supervisory forces in
numerous clinics on how to defeat the union and the possible will of his
employees and requires the supervisors to become active in his
anti-union campaign. They work at their task each hour of the campaign.
3) He uses the Company mailing list of his workers as
a means of sending out "Dear John" or "Dear Mary"
letters asking them to choose between the Company and security, or the
union and strike action. And the union has no equal response
opportunity. Remember, the Union gets the mailing list, be it correct or
incorrect only ten days before the election.
4) The employer turns his plant into an anti-union
slogans, pleas for a 'no' vote, pictures of picket lines, photos of
closed plants; ad infinitum. And 90% of all slanted material comes from
the boiler plate churned out by the mimeographs or presses of his
lawyer.
5) The fear campaign is now taking hold. It's time to
show the films. Once more its strikes, picket lines, closed plants,
isolated instances of violence which are depicted as normal day-to-day
practices by all unions.
6) Now the workers are softened up. The plant is in
ferment. It's like a pressure cooker. Fear permeates the entire plant,
the whole work force. So the time has come to use the ultimate weapon --
the coercive, intimidatory "captive audience free speech."
Here he openly or subtly casts aside all morality, all ethics and all
respect for the law and threatens punishment. Here he subverts the law.
7) The captive audience is usually addressed by a man
who does have the power to discharge. His presentation is a monologue.
An opposition view is neither invited nor permitted
8) A study of NLRB election schedules show that a
great number of them are held on paydays. Payday is election day, which
is advantageous to the employer. On payday he can give out slips saying,
"This paycheck shows no deduction for union dues."
9) Its incumbent upon the trade unionist to reject
deals in consent elections where he knows such deals are illegal. The
trade unionist may suffer, but the principles of law will be maintained
by the unionist even if these principles of law are ignored by the
lawyers and the NLRB.
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
you happy." |
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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