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• • 31 May 09
  • 5:28 pm

  A small minority of lower skilled workers and possibly a minority of higher skilled workers have even a basic understanding of what the signing the union membership card means. The average lower skilled worker does not even know that he or she will have to pay dues to be a union member and that the dues are not voluntary; they are automatically deducted from the worker's pay check. The average low skilled worker in signing the card which has been explained for the first time by a friendly, highly paid union organizer salesperson only knows what the union organizer tells him …

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• • 09 Jul 09
  • 4:06 pm

  Likewise on the criticism, but, there is a need to be realistic and honest about these discussions. Of the three parties involved in unionization, the employer, the employee, and the union, under EFCA only the union or the employees could ask for an election. The union is not going to because it is easier to get cards signed than go through an election campaign and win a majority of a secret ballot election. The employees are not going to do it mainly because they don't know it can be done or how to do it plus the union organizers are generally …

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