1. 3 months ago 

   So Apparently there is this huge uproar about Georgia S.B. 469

   One side views it as an anti-protesting bill, where as the other side views it merely as a “right to work” bill.

   You can read the full bill here

   Georgia is an “At Will” state, meaning that your employer can fire you for any reason, at any time, without notice and without reason. Yes, some of those “reasons” will qualify you for unemployment, but is that really any consolation? I have come to realize that in my beloved state (which as horrible as the politicians here are, I do truly love) does not care about workers. I am not sure they ever really have. They do, however, care about the employers. Sometimes a little too much. Are there times that being an “At Will” state comes in handy? Oh, I am sure there are. From an employer standpoint, you don’t really want to wait until that lazy employee does something wrong or against policy before firing them, but in turn it can and does hurt a lot of people who work their asses off. Let’s not kid ourselves on this one.

   S.B. 469 states:

   (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in mass picketing at or near any place, including private residences, where a labor dispute exists in such number or manner as to obstruct or interfere with or constitute a threat to obstruct or interfere with the entrance to or egress from any place of employment or the free and uninterrupted use of public roads, streets, highways, railroads, airports, or other ways of travel, transportation, or conveyance.

   Why do I call bullshit? Our government did not start pushing this after some large Union/Labor protest. They started pushing it after Occupy. Now, I believe that there is a right way and a wrong way to protest (ask me about it later cause this isn’t the post for that) and one should never block “traffic” when protesting. It doesn’t do anything to get your point across and you come off as kind of douchey. But do we really need a law telling us that we cannot protest anywhere there are labor disputes (Cause it really is only going to apply to labor disputes /sarc)? Seriously, in the state of GA how often are there labor disputes with picketing that get so out of hand they block traffic? I highly doubt that since GA has one of the lowest Union enrollments (of the states that are union states) in the country (you know the whole “right to work” thing, can’t be forced to join a union and blah blah blah). People in Georgia seem to think that Unions are these immensely evil entities (and while yes I do have my reservations about Unions, they do provide some good things, but I digress) that wish to do nothing but prevent them from working by striking, when in most cases that is not the case. Unions are complex. You cannot say one thing about them and leave it at that. But that is beside the point. Why does a state that has an extremely low Unionized population with “at will” employment, need a law regarding protesting at labor disputes? Are we really naive enough to think that this law is truly going to be applied to ONLY to labor disputes? And do we not have the right to “free assembly” (again there is a proper way to “assemble” and an improper way but that is for another post)? Do we not already have laws regarding protesting (such as permit/permission laws, regulations regarding where and when we can protest, etc.)? Why this law? Why now?

   Georgia politicians must be really full of themselves if they do not think we can see straight through this charade.

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