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CEOs taking away political freedom of workers.

Is this a breach of liberty?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 53.8%

  • No

    Votes: 18 46.2%
  • Total voters
    39
TOJ said:
Are employers in the USA required to accept and file voter registration forms for employees?

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Required no. It's a bit underhanded to take the registration forms of employees and throw away those that you don't like, don't you think?
 
rocket88 said:
Required no. It's a bit underhanded to take the registration forms of employees and throw away those that you don't like, don't you think?
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Might not be kosher, but I don't see how it is a legal issue.

Acutally, if the employee is too damn lazy to take care of it themself, they deserve what they get.

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TOJ said:
Might not be kosher, but I don't see how it is a legal issue.

Acutally, if the employee is too damn lazy to take care of it themself, they deserve what they get.

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I'd say that probably depends on the State. Without knowing off-hand, I assume that it's possible that one or more states requires that if you take the form you have to turn it in.
 
radcen said:
Interesting point.

Small aspect, but a union is also an employer itself in that they have their own staff, and so on. Could their recommendations extend to their own staff as well?
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Their staff is not hired...its elected by the membership
 
I see this as freedom of associatin issue really not nessacerly a speach issue. Either way if the employer wants to be stupid, they should be able to be stupid. Also one more reason to be SELF employed, you dont have to put up with dingbats like that if you dont want to.
 
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lpast said:
Their staff is not hired...its elected by the membership
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at the local level, anyway
but for larger unions, they will normally have paid staff at the regional and national levels

the fellow who is my union mentor lead a strike against his employer, the national AFGE, about 1980
 
RGacky3 said:


Yet I guess libertarians will thing this is absolutely ok ... which goes to show, they don't care about liberty, they are all for private plutocratic tyrannies.
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Of course. If Ayn Rand had been consistent, she would have let her publishers get the lion's share of the profit from her books, because they "created her job." How much capital did she risk in writing them? So, by her principles, she's lucky she got enough to live on from her bestsellers.
 
How is this different from the president of Notre Dame saying that he wouldn't let his team play in the New Orleans bowl game if the people of Louisiana elected David Duke as governor?
 
justabubba said:
at the local level, anyway
but for larger unions, they will normally have paid staff at the regional and national levels

the fellow who is my union mentor lead a strike against his employer, the national AFGE, about 1980
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Ours didnt have hired employess...you may be right though
 
radcen said:
Their secretaries, receptionists, and such are elected?
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at the field level, normally yes

but larger unions have bigger budgets to fund operating costs smaller unions cannot
 
Do you really have to use Young Turk? Really?

And yes, it is legal, but I think underhanded. I feel the same way about what some unions do as well.
 
But it does not mean you vote that party!

If things go the way things are where the 1% will get even richer and more powerful while the middle class shrinks and serfdom emerges, there is a possibility that a revolution could occur. Remember the French Revolution where ol' Louis XIV and his lovely wife Marie and hordes of other members of the 1% class lost their heads literally?
 
Glowpun said:
But it does not mean you vote that party!

If things go the way things are where the 1% will get even richer and more powerful while the middle class shrinks and serfdom emerges, there is a possibility that a revolution could occur. Remember the French Revolution where ol' Louis XIV and his lovely wife Marie and hordes of other members of the 1% class lost their heads literally?
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As the guillotine rusts, so does freedom.
 
Is it wrong to warn employees that further taxation could lead to fewer jobs? Absolutely not. But it is wrong to not turn in employee voter registration cards just because they may not vote the way you want them to.

However, this guy does not represent every CEO and every "rich" person in America. If he was normal, he wouldn't be on TV. He's on TV because he's a jackass. And not just any jackass, but a colossal jackass.
 
If he wanted to break the law by forcing my vote for Romney I'd break the law and force my fist into his fat overly-red nose...
 
OnWisconsin said:
If he wanted to break the law by forcing my vote for Romney I'd break the law and force my fist into his fat overly-red nose...
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spoken like tagg romney
 
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