UnionFacts
Posted by Patti on March 1st, 2006 / Print This Post
For all who think Unions are a good thing, check out this site:
Look up the profile of many unions. Here’s a sample of the SEIU.
For all the talk about companies doing unfair labor practices, check out SEIU’s record. (Shame)
And see how many facilities actually chose this union for representation vs. how many DON’T. (13 pages long!!)
It’s like this with all the unions. Look around the site. You might learn something.
March 6th, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Unions on the whole are a very good thing. However, in healthcare, I do not think they are a good thing. I would have to keep on putting myself in the place of the patient who is lying in bed hungry, thirsty, needing to go to the bathroom or who knows what. I’ve had some experience with the healthcare workers union. They were trying to come into the facility where I worked at the time. The schedule for the nursing assistants came up missing from the desk of the DON. Someone saw a man who didn’t belong there coming out of the office of the DON and knew that it was one of their reps. Kinda shady if you ask me.
March 9th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Unions used to have a place in America. Not anymore. I believe they are shady, they are not truly interested in helping anyone but their own bankrolls. Some of the tactics they use are not good.
August 16th, 2006 at 10:48 pm
RE: Berman & Co., a Washington, DC public affairs firm owned by lobbyist Rick Berman, represents the tobacco industry as well as hotels, beer distributors, taverns, and restaurant chains. Berman & Co. lobbies for companies such as Cracker Barrel, Hooters, International House of Pancakes, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Red Lobster, Steak & Ale, TGI Friday’s, Uno’s Restaurants, and Wendy’s. It also operates a network of several front groups, web sites, and think tanks that work to keep wages low for restaurants and to block legislation on food safety, secondhand cigarette smoke, and drunk driving.
According to a July 31, 2006, profile of Rick Berman in USA Today, Berman and Co. has 28 employees and takes in $10 million dollars a year, but “only Berman and his bookkeeper wife” know how much of the $10 million ends up in their own pockets. [1] (http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2006-07-31-lobbyist-usat_x.htm#chart)
In a 1999 interview with the Chain Leader, a trade publication for restaurant chains, Berman explained the focus of his lobby efforts, which mirror his non-profit groups’ activities. “In effect, our work is restricted to and focused on issues that affect shareholder value,” he said. “These big issues include labor costs as they relate to health insurance and the minimum wage.” He also stated that he attacks activists more aggressively than other lobbyists. “We always have a knife in our teeth,” he said. Since activists “drive consumer behavior on meat, alcohol, fat, sugar, tobacco and caffeine,” his strategy is “to shoot the messenger…. We’ve got to attack their credibility as spokespersons.” [2]
Just thought anyone taking Rick Berman (not the producer of “Star Trek”) at his word would like to know. “UnionFacts.com” is one of his websites.