Show THE VOICE OF BUSINESS 1 T. m U 11 I O 3 O I I t I I l O I H CI H i. Chamber of Commerce of the United is more important to the labor movement at this point in its Thus CIO President George of the Labor Uw Reform Blu- making cear its primacy among the goals of organized on June 22 that bill was sent back to committee after the failure of a record-breaking sixth attempt to break the filibuster mounted by its Whether it's out remains to be definitely down for the event mark may a major tor- point in modern American A decline of the political dominance of Washington by organized a dominance that began with the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt and ew the succeeding a 11 is a measure oi of the ine unions unions' still- sua- influence however that a filibuster was required to stop Uie bill n though national public PolIs registered strong majority union more r To those unfamiliar the operation of national labor the proposed bill appeared to be a collection of minor and apparently benign procedural changes in the rules governing union proselytizing and as a it was cleverly very designed to tilt the balance in favor of the union in any organizing reducing the rights of both the management and the The union's reasons for wanting such changes are easy to Union membership is In 1976 most recent year for which the figures are the unions lost 52 percent of the secret ballot representation elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Worse from the union they are also losing a majority of the decer- when the workers vote to throw out a union they already In hopes of reversing these the union leaders and their political allies cooked up some modifications of the National Labor Relations Act Leave management less time and opportunity to to present it-f its side of of th story to workers being pressured to Jo a Me il more for managers and workers to resist the union's organizing 3 managers into caving ln to Small business and the largely unionized South were prime For public relations the unions needed a Century-style so they J made one out of a textile Me J.P. Company of North With some cooperation irom elements of the various do-gooder and one particular they succeeded in making Stevens look despite the fact that the union Involved was cited for twice as many violations of the labor law as the Is an indication of how far toward the union labor law is already slanted that one of the committed by Stevens is as reported in Fortune supervisor asked two employees walking through a plant drumming up attendance at a speech by a union I help and was held to have made a and un- justified which a and therefore But on this tabor's proven tactics Ak business small business jid Mt roll over and play dead W the a union are beginning to for How much will the Hues' What good Job gets' priced out It was a monumental and It can't be lh n v. st |