You can\’t make this stuff up.
From Sean Higgins\’ article at washingtonexaminer.com:
MediaMatters for America is apparently resisting an effort by ServiceEmployees International Union Local 500 to unionize its staff.
Lastweek, the union filed a representationpetition with the NationalLabor Relations Board, indicating that the nonprofit mediawatchdog organization rejected an effort by the union to organizeMMFA\’s staff through a Card Check election.
NeitherMedia Matters for America nor Local 500 responded to requests forcomment.
MMFAhas regularlypresented itself as a supporter of organized labor. It has arguedthat “economists point to declining union participation as onecause of the growing economic rift in America” and claimed itwas afact that “unions increase productivity [and] do not reducebusiness competitiveness.”
So Media Matters, that champion of unions, suddenly becomes Scab City when a union comes knocking at its doors.
Evidently, based on its own philosophy as noted in the above excerpt, Media Matters prefers lower productivity. Go figger.
You\’ve heard of NAMBY (Not In My Back Yard) hypocrisy? This, seems to be a case of NFMBS (Not For My Blog Staff).
Just imagine what Media Matters would say if the organization pulling the rug out from SEIU was Fox News (and don\’t stop laughing on my account).
