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Published on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 by In These Times

Ron Paul Would Allow ‘Open Season’ on Union Organizers

by Mike Elk


Ron Paul’s showing yesterday in the Iowa Caucus—he came in third with 21 percent of votes, behind Mitt Romney's and Rick Santorum's 24.6 percent showings—wasn't the victory his passionate supporters wanted, but it makes him a force to be reckoned with throughout the rest of the Republican primary season. Paul, a longtime congressman from Texas, drew his support from an unusual combination of libertarians, conservatives and even a few progressives who supported his firm stances against the wars, opposition to the Wall Street bailout and strong support for civil liberties.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Texas) and his wife, Carol, greet supporters in Ankeny, Iowa, after his third-place finish in the Iowa caucus on Tuesday, January 3. (Photo by Mark Kegans/Getty Images) But what would his civil liberty stances mean for American's workers? It appears Paul would actually like to take away a key protection Americans currently enjoy at work. He supports ending a provision of the National Labor Relations Act that makes it illegal for employers to fire workers based on their support of unions.

Several times between 2001 and 2009, Ron Paul sponsored the Truth in Employment Act, legislation that would amend the National Labor Relations Act to allow employers to fire pro-union workers (sometimes called “salts”) who join a workplace with the intent of unionizing it. Paul's office did not return phone calls from In These Times about the candidate's support for this piece of legislation.

Union activists sometimes get jobs with employers that they wish to unionize in hopes that their presence will make the union drive more successful. Sometime these “salts” enter a workplace at the urging of a union and sometimes they do it independently. The Truth in Employment Act would amend the National Labor Relations Act by allowing employers to fire any workers that they suspect took a job with the intent of organizing their workplace.

In 2001, on the floor of the House of Representatives, Paul said:


I rise to introduce the Truth in Employment Act which protects small businesses and independent-minded workers from the destructive and coercive "top-down'' organizing tactic known as salting. Salting is a technique designed by unscrupulous union officials for the purpose of harassing small businesses until the businesses compel their employees to pay union dues as a condition of employment. Passing the Truth in Employment Act is a good first step toward restoring the constitution rights of property and contract to employers and employees.

UE Political Action Director Chris Townsend, however, says that if passed, the Truth in Employment Act would lead to “open season” on workers hoping to organize a union.

The legislation "would allow employers to refuse to hire, or even to fire, any worker suspected of—or declared by the boss to be -- a union supporter. No worker will be safe if employers are given this license to discriminate on the basis of one’s beliefs about unions or anything else,” Townsend says.

While Paul claims he is for individual liberty, his support for the Truth in Employment Act shows that when its comes to the workplace, an employer's liberty trumps that of a worker.

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salts sound like they are only going to work for a company in order to further a political agenda rather than gain honest employment.


Reminds me of the native american group that enrolled in my old junior high and immediately sued the school because the mascot was a raider.

Once the school changed the mascot the family moved to another district and did the same thing.

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Question for you Ray, I see that your source for the Ron Paul article is the magazine "In These Times". Are you an avid reader of it? Did you know that their tagline used to be "The Independent Socialist Newspaper"? Just wondering.
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quote:
Originally posted by Upside:
Question for you Ray, I see that your source for the Ron Paul article is the magazine "In These Times". Are you an avid reader of it? Did you know that their tagline used to be "The Independent Socialist Newspaper"? Just wondering.

that's not surprising wiht founders like Noam Chomsky and David Horowitz, before Horowizt did a complete 180 and became a slavering right winger....

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Yes I read all different writers and publications on the left and far right if one wants to understand humans one must.

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I have also read my life on the plains by george armstrong custer what does that make me?

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quote:
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Yes I read all different writers and publications on the left and far right if one wants to understand humans one must.

This is hands down the dumbest post I have ever read on this board...
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Why is that

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how about gibbons decline and fall of the roman empire what does that mean?

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Originally posted by raybond:
Yes I read all different writers and publications on the left and far right if one wants to understand humans one must.
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This is hands down the dumbest post I have ever read on this board

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Have ever taken the time time read what you post. I am suprised you have enough time after you fall off the barstool.

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Comcast Adopts NBC’s Ban On Gun Ads Company-Wide

By Alyssa Rosenberg on Feb 21, 2013 at 2:07 pm


AdWeek reports that Comcast, which is purchasing the rest of NBC Universal, will begin using that company’s rules for advertising across its whole enterprise. And that includes a ban on firearms advertisements:


In a statement, Comcast said it decided this month it would adopt the advertising guidelines used by NBCUniversal, which will not accept ads for weapons or fireworks. (Last week, the cable giant announced it would acquire the 49 percent of NBCU it didn’t own for $16.7 billion.) NBC’s ad policy, last updated in June 2012, reads: “NBC does not accept advertisements for weapons or fireworks. Commercials that include weapons or fireworks as props will be approved on a case-by-case basis.” News of the policy change was reported by the local ABC affiliate in Flint, Mich. Williams Gun Sight Co. was outraged that its 30-second spot could no longer run on cable. A Comcast spokesperson didn’t know how long the NBC policy banning ads for firearms and weapons had been in place at NBC. “It’s a long-standing policy,” the spokesman said.

Voluntary restrictions on gun ads are relatively common in the wake of gun violence. In 1999, President Clinton asked representatives of the entertainment industry to eliminate advertising that included images of guns and gun violence. In 2003, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune decided it would only accept for ads that were antiques or collectibles after a man murdered his wife with a weapon that he purchased from the Guns & Rifles section of the classifieds. And this January, ESPN refused to renew an advertising contract with East Coast Guns on the grounds that its advertising criteria had changed to exclude ads that featured hand guns and ammunition for those weapons.

Comcast’s decision seems more likely to be the product of standardizing corporate practices as part of the acquisition than a direct response to the Newtown massacre. It would be a public relations problem for the company for a sales representative operating under one set of standards to accept an advertisement that local affiliates are unable to run. But it’s also probably a good call for the company given the current environment. I’ve said this before, but I think one of the most reasonable steps the entertainment industry could take in response to concerns about the impact of violent media would be to align the ratings of products that are being advertised with the ratings of the products they’re being advertised during. It would be labor-intensive to place ads that way. But making sure that viewers who have turned into general-interest or all-ages programming aren’t surprised by images of graphic violence would at least help consumers make viewing choices, even if it wouldn’t address the concerns of people who are worried about the desensitizing impacts of media violence.



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And that includes a ban on firearms advertisements:



more propaganda at work. i suggest your read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jarred Diamond if you want some perspective from a distnace on human behavior. As you read it? Pay particular attention to how random things get in th eway of societal advancement, like the TseTse fly that blocked horses from entering sub-saharran Africa, and how the zebra is totally refractory to domestication because of it's imprintation issues at birht. It imprinsts to a specific set of stripes and NOTHING else. Zebra's being undomesticable, and the only horse-like beast south of the Saharra left the African Aboriginal people without the benfit of ploughing and transport. It literally decided how the cultures would develop or more precisely, not develop there.
I'm not convinced that it is proper to allow comcast or any other media company deny acces to one paying customer over another. In fact? I beleive that may be setlled law already, i remebr somehting about lunch counters at certain drug stores in the South about 60 years ago...... if you are open to business, one customer with money is due equal acces to another customer with moeny.

being a "liberal" is not easy is it? just remeber that winnng the rat race doesn't mean the beady eyes and tail are gone, no matter which politcval party you are in [Wink]

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I may take your advice try Hagel and Kant and maybe even Marx. I was very anti marx then I read it and what an education about capitalism I got. And i don't mean in a negative way. He understood more about capitalism than the capitalist.

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quote:
Originally posted by raybond:
Originally posted by raybond:
Yes I read all different writers and publications on the left and far right if one wants to understand humans one must.
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This is hands down the dumbest post I have ever read on this board

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Have ever taken the time time read what you post. I am suprised you have enough time after you fall off the barstool.

Yes Ray, I have taken the time to read what I post and it is actually quite easy...

Unlike you, I have the ability to structure sentences and paragraphs that make it easy for the reader to understand my message, even if they don't like what I have to say!

If you believe that "one" must read the written ramblings of political pundits on the right or left to understand humans, then "one" is a complete dumbazz...

Clear enough

Hiccup!!!

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quote:
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I have also read my life on the plains by george armstrong custer what does that make me?

An Injun hater?
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upside I am half Injun as you put it thanks for the racist remark.

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Sorry about that Hiawatha, no harm intended.
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never mind I changed my mind.

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Changed your mind about what?
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about my post

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