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Default Starbucks Obstructing First Union Vote

WHEN THE MOVIE PROJECTIONISTS WENT ON STRIKE THEY BROKE OUT Windows on
MOVIE GOERS CARS AND SLASHED TIRES

Hawth Hill wrote:
> in article , Wm James at
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wrote on 06/12/2004 3:28 AM:
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>>Ever cross a picket line? I have
>>crossed more than a few. They attempt to use violence, threats,
>>extortion, and vandalism to prevent decent people from exercising
>>their rights to work and shop.

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> I've seen this happen. I've seen it alleged many, many times. Sometimes it
> happens. But, whenever it does, all one need do is get the NLRB on the
> phone. Such actions are illegal, and will be stopped very quickly. The
> NLRA statutorily requires that the NLRB give precedence to the handling and
> prosecution of any such charges.
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>>They go out of their way to encourage
>>jury duty specificaly to get their cohorts off the hook if they get
>>arrested for perpetrating such crimes as well.

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> I thought I'd heard everything, but this is a new one. Wow, managing to
> "pack" a jury pool that consists of thousands and thousands of possible
> jurors. And to think! Not one of the attorneys prosecuting such cases has
> thought to engage in voir dire and have such persons excluded for cause!
> LOL
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>>Even work slowdowns are
>>theft, and employers should have the legal right to answer them with
>>matching pay slowdowns.

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> Yet another of those chimeras. Work slowdowns are specifically made illegal
> under section 8(e) of the NLRA. And, yet again, it's one of those sections
> of the Act where the NLRB is required by the statute to give the
> investigation and prosecution of the allegation precedence over all other
> pending allegations in the office. If it's true that you know of such
> violations, all you need do is call the NLRB. They'll take it from there,
> at no cost to you.
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> HH
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