while we were masturgating

[pkz]

Board slashes workers’ rights to join unions

By a razor-thin margin, the National Labor Relations Board voted 3-2 on Oct. 3 to immediately rob up to 8 million workers of their right to belong to a union.

The five-member board ruled that workers who have even very limited oversight duties — like nurses who occasionally reassign co-workers to patients in a nursing home during a particular shift — may be properly classified as “supervisors” and are therefore ineligible for union membership.

The ruling, known as the “Kentucky River decision,” could conceivably apply to workers in a wide array of industries, including retail, manufacturing, construction, mining and other skilled occupations.

The three members of the board who voted for the decision are all Republicans.

Reaction from John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, was swift and sharp. “Today’s decision is the latest in the Bush-appointed NLRB’s legal maneuvering to deny as many workers as possible their basic right to have a voice on the job and improve their living standards through their union.
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/9931/1/342/

[uppityperson]

1. And: Bush says he can edit security reports

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2325672

President Bush, again defying Congress, says he has the power to edit the Homeland Security Department's reports about whether it obeys privacy rules while handling background checks, ID cards and watchlists.

In the law Bush signed Wednesday, Congress stated no one but the privacy officer could alter, delay or prohibit the mandatory annual report on Homeland Security department activities that affect privacy, including complaints.

But Bush, in a signing statement attached to the agency's 2007 spending bill, said he will interpret that section "in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch."

[NorCalDem]

2. And...

24 soldiers have died in Iraq since Saturday. Let's not forget this... it is truly the biggest story.

[uppityperson]

3. 2738, everytime I look it changes.