Incidentally, the Liberty Bell is where two Philadelphia area congressmen, Chaka Fattah and Patrick Murphy (my congressman), rallied with Wackenhut workers and SEIU organizers to launch the Wackenhut Workers Organizing Committee.

Read the story from the Philadelphia Daily News here.

Learn more about what’s going on with the organizing effort at the SEIU’s Eye on Wackenhut website.

More and more workers seek alternatives to organizing through the lengthy, conflict-ridden NLRB election process. When unions and employers can come together to agree on a peaceful process of organizing, the Board should promote this progress in labor relations. Instead, the Board turned on its own mission to promote collective bargaining, and is aiding the right-wing attack on the freedom of association. This ruling further underscores the need for Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow workers to more freely form unions.

Click here for more on the Employee Free Choice Act.

“The result could come as a rude shock to nurses and other workers who for decades have been effectively protected by the NLRA, but who now may find themselves treated, for labor-law purposes, as members of management, with no right to pursue collective bargaining or engage in other concerted activity in the workplace.. ..The majority’s decision thus denies the protection of the Act to yet another group of workers, while strengthening the ability of employers to resist the unionization of other employees.”

And that’s just from the two dissenting members of Bush’s NLRB on the recent “Kentucky River” decision. If you don’t like the sound of this, you can click here to tell President Bush. If you think it’s no big deal, read more from the New York Times.