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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

We're Not Anti-Union! It's Just To Save Money!

According to a Think Progress article by Zaid Jilani, the city of Winter Park, Florida, is paying a consulting firm, Kulture LLC, $2,500 a day to help the city’s staff dissuade about 150 city workers from joining a union.

Kulture, says Jilani, “a firm specializing in labor relations," runs a weabsite "... replete with right-wing ideology. It hosts op-eds claiming that sweatshops are an opportunity for the 'third world poor' and bragging that the 'labor movement is dead.' Its webpages direct users to far-right sources of information such as the Ayn Rand Institute and The Federalist Society. It also hosts the anti-union laborunionreport.com, which hosts anti-labor articles and a monthly 'anti-union report.' The organization’s CEO, Peter A. List, has said that 'unions are a by-product of a bad relationship.'"

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