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May 8, 2008 - 1:21 am - Posted by WTH
There will be dark days ahead for American business and the economy if Barack Obama becomes the president. Especially if his coattails brings an avalanche of Democrats into Congress. All because the first order of business for the next Congress will be passage of the “card check” ideas that unions have been pushing for since 2003. Once Obama and his cadre of anti-business, anti-democracy associates get in place, the card check idea will be good as gold. And the safety of prospective union members everywhere will be endangered.
Deceivingly called the “Employee Free Choice Act,” it is an effort by unions to allow them to use intimidation to force new union voters to agree to union organization and representation. David Weigel of Reason Magazine has a short explanation in the current issue.
What’s the Employee Free Choice Act? If you aren’t a lobbyist in Washington, a union worker, or an employer nervously trying to prevent your staff from organizing, you might not have followed the twisty history of the latest attempt to increase private-sector unionization. “Card check,” as it is usually known, would allow employees at a company to bypass secret-ballot elections and declare their intent to unionize by simply signing cards.
In other words, the secret vote will be taken away from prospective union members. This means, if an employee votes against agreeing to unionize, his no vote will be instantly obvious to everyone with whom he works. This also means that union thugs will be able to know exactly who stands against them. This opens the employee up to harassment by union thugs who want to push through unions because they will know the identity of every single worker that voted against them.
Now, secret balloting, the security of a vote known only to the voter, is the single most important aspect of a free, democratic electoral system. And here we have unions proving that they don’t care a whit about democracy and want to be able to rely solely on coercion and thuggery to force their way into businesses that might very well be filled with workers who don’t want to be unionized.
But, with the card check system in place, workers could easily find themselves voting for a union they don’t want because of the pressure of their vote being openly known by everyone.
So, what we have here is a simple fact: unions hate democracy.
And if Obama becomes president, we will see LESS democracy in this country.
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February 18, 2008 - 1:05 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
From the Department of the Pot Calling the Kettle Black comes this Chicago Tribune story about troubles in paradise over at the SEIU…
“Sal Rosselli doesn’t think his union, the Service Employees International Union, is all that democratic, and he is making a fuss about it. But he is not your average union-card carrier. As leader of a 150,000-member local in California, and until recently head of the more than 600,000-member SEIU California State Council, Rosselli has wielded quite a bit of union clout. He also belonged to SEIU’s executive committee until last weekend, when he resigned in a blistering letter to union President Andy Stern, accusing him of expanding his powers at members’ expense.”
Over recent years, SEIU has become perhaps the most aggressive and obnoxious band of union agitators in the entire nation. That one union boss is accusing a fellow union boss of thuggery is indeed sauce for the goose.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if these two union bosses divided their own union the way SEIU divided the union movement in general by bolting the AFL-CIO a couple years ago? We can only hope.
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December 24, 2007 - 4:13 am - Posted by WTH
Here is a loss to liberty, freedom and our rights. Once again, judicial activism slaps down one of our most central rights, property rights, n favor of union thugs. In California, unions won the right to be able to disrupt the businesses inside malls.
Now, a mall should be considered private property, but these extremist leftists on the Calif. Supreme court have decided in their finite wisdom that a union may legally invade a mall and protest a business that they don’t like, disrupting the store’s operations and scaring customers away.
The 4-3 ruling came in a case dating to 1998 involving the Fashion Valley mall and a labor union representing press workers at The San Diego Union-Tribune. The court majority said that free-speech rights – as interpreted under the state Constitution and a 1979 state Supreme Court case – also extend to the private property of shopping malls.
“Urging customers to boycott a store lies at the core of the right to free speech,” Associate Justice Carlos Moreno wrote for the majority.
Moreno was joined by Chief Justice Ronald George and Associate Justices Joyce Kennard and Kathryn Mickle Werdegar.
Almost half the court had enough sense to understand that this ruling is a violation of the rights to private property:
In a strong dissent, Associate Justice Ming Chin criticized the ruling and said the court should have overturned the 1979 case that extended free-speech rights to shopping malls.
“Private property should be treated as private property, not as a public free speech zone,” Chin wrote.
He was joined by Justices Marvin Baxter and Carol A. Corrigan.
Call this one a strike against Americanism and our rights and a win for union thugs all across the state. Now, lets hope that such a blow against freedom and liberty isn’t replicated elsewhere.
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September 10, 2007 - 2:42 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Below is a coalition letter signed by close to 20 groups, including Citizen Outreach Project, urging the Senate to use budget-neutral methods to restore full funding to the Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) as requested by the President…
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September 5, 2007 - 1:37 pm - Posted by Doug Bandow
When Congress returns after Labor Day the Democratic majority will return to the business of paying off its campaign debts to organized labor, which spent lavishly to elect Democrats in 2006. That means helping unions and hurting workers.
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September 4, 2007 - 2:36 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
As everyone knows, Big Labor has it in for Wal-Mart big time. Everyone knows it because Wal-Mart is such a high-profile retail operation that everyone hates…except the millions of people who shop and work there. But most people probably don’t know much about what arguably is the second most hated non-union company in America, Cintas. Here’s some background on this company which is providing a huge number of well-paid jobs to a huge number of unskilled workers and which is under constant union assault…
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September 3, 2007 - 5:57 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
HAPPY NON-UNION LABOR DAY: As we fire up the grill and crack open a cold one (or two) to celebrate this year’s Labor Day, let us not lose sight of the fact that without employers, entrepreneurs and business owners willing to take risks in a free-market economy, there would be no jobs. Let us also not forget that labor unions don’t create jobs. In fact, quite often they kill them. So happy non-union Labor Day everyone! And don’t forget to thank your boss tomorrow.
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August 31, 2007 - 1:22 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
For all the Democrats’ professed shock at Republican spending abuses during the last Congress, frugality remains rare on Capitol Hill. Outlays are mostly going up, with a curious exception — the budget of the small Labor Department agency that oversees labor unions’ public disclosure and financial integrity.
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August 22, 2007 - 8:13 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
If anyone wants to know why I have such disdain for today’s modern labor movement, here’s a prime example. As families, friends and co-workers continue to grieve over the loss of life in the Utah coal mine tragedy, John Sweeney - the heartless bastard running the AFL-CIO these days - saw an opportunity to use this sad event to further his political agenda. Read this sickening email he sent out today…
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August 20, 2007 - 9:27 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Las Vegas has been the host of many a mega-fight over the years, but one coming up this November has gotten scarce attention by the general public. I’m talking about the challenge the Teamsters is mounting against the miserable failure otherwise known as the Clark County Education Association (CCEA).
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August 16, 2007 - 5:13 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Hoo-hah! Boy, oh boy, did we stir up a hornet’s nest over at the postal union by posting a column written by Charles Guy of the Lexington Institute on the sweetheart deal the union just struck with the government monopoly that delivers your first-class mail.
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August 9, 2007 - 5:11 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
By Charles Guy of the Lexington Institute
The U.S. Postal Service and one of its largest unions, the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), just reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract. Union head William Young called the agreement a “win-win deal for the Postal Service and the nation’s city letter carriers.”
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July 30, 2007 - 7:22 pm - Posted by Chuck Muth
Citizen Outreach Project, the grassroots lobbying arm of Citizen Outreach, signed onto a coalition letter opposing a piece of legislation back by Big Labor which would throw a monkey-wrench into the employer/employee relationship of local public safety employees. Here’s a reprint of that letter…
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