Unions Turn To War Language For Employee Free Choice Act
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 by adminSo let’s think this one out: You’re a union boss who’s desperate to get new members to pay your salary and prop up failing pension plans and you’ve come up with a bill that accomplishes that by 1) effectively eliminating secret ballots and 2) imposing government arbitrators to set key (and sensitive) business decisions.
So you’d think that when pushing such a toxic bill — especially one in which the likelihood of union intimidation has become a central concern — union officials would keep a moderate tone and language. That’s what you’d think, but you’d be wrong.
Over at Huffington Post, the AFL-CIO’s Stewart Acuff says “America Needs Warriors for Justice.” Words in his article: warriors, assault, fight, fight hard.
All this begs the question: if unions believe this is a holy war, does that not make employees who wish to remain union-free part of the enemy? And isn’t that precisely the reason we need to give them the protection of a secret ballot to decide whether to join a union?
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November 18th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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