Card Check: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Friday, November 13th, 2009 by admin“Employer” sounds too nice, but you can’t complain about “anti-union” CEOs or companies. Those are among the lessons from a document carrying the letterhead of the Service Employees International Union and its trade association, Change for Working Families.
It’s a how-to guide for avoiding the real point of the Employee Free Choice Act and card check … wait, strike that. SEIU’s minions are told not to use the term “card check” (it’s toxic, after all).
Instead, they are instructed to use the old gem “majority sign-up.” And don’t dare mention the secret ballot or private ballot system that currently protects employees — try to bend facts (or avoid them) to describe a “company-dominated system.” And for goodness sake, don’t say “Our union or labor is behind this bill” … that would be too honest! Blame it on “workers” or “working people. Likewise, don’t say EFCA is about making it “easier for unions to organize workers.”
All this may not be surprising, but the extent to which SEIU wants to avoid discussing the union role in EFCA is remarkable. The flyer instructs spokespeople not to discuss the “process or conflict” of organizing and avoid the normal “tone that sounds angry, demagogues CEOs, or over-generalizes about business.” Instead, there’s suggested obfuscatory claptrap.
The document is likely a reflection of organized labor’s plummeting popularity with Americans. See a collection of public opinion polls here. We’re tempted to make a reference to Orwell, but he’s not the one spinning here — that’s SEIU.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:59 am
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