Now You’re a Racist if you Don’t Support Unions?
Union shill Ron Gettelfinger wants you to know that if you don’t support unions you are a racist. That’s right. If you don’t want the undemocratic card check bill to pass Congress you are exactly like the negro hanging, civil rights denying, Jim Crow enforcers of the 1950s.
In one of the most disgusting examples of moral equivalence I’ve seen for a long time — at least one not appearing on such low-born sites such as the DailyKos or Huffington Post — Gettelfinger committed the anti-intellectual outrage of positing that hanging black men in the 1950’s is “just like” voting against a bill that would take away the right of prospective union members to be allowed to vote their conscience in secret as all votes in a democracy are traditionally cast.
Gettelfinger equated the efforts of the civil rights movement to give blacks equal rights to that of support for a bill that takes away people’s rights. This is an outrage against the many thousands that died in the civil rights struggle. It cheapens the fight to end generations of racial oppression and makes a war in which hundreds of thousands of Americans died no different than a mere labor bill in Congress.
Imagine the audacity of this cretinous effort to diminish the struggle for black rights in this country all in an effort to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a mere labor bill!
Gettelfinger should be ashamed of himself for this reprehensible editorial and the Detroit News should be censured by all clear thinking people for publishing it.
This simple labor bill does not give people that were previously oppressed any rights. This bill does not free anyone from servitude. This bill is not meant to stop hangings, beatings, or efforts to keep people from an education. All this bill does is give unions the power to more easily intimidate possible members into joining their organizations. This bill takes away more rights than it gives.
There are several lies in Gettelfinger’s abhorrent piece. He says, for instance, that the evil racist, black-hanging Democrats are now Republicans but otherwise have not changed. Of course, if this were true, one should expect that Republicans would be hosting neck-tie parties still today. Yet, since the Democratic Party lost the south that seems not to be the case. If today’s Republicans are “just like” the racists of yesterday, they sure don’t act like their elders!
But his last few lines are also egregious where it concerns the lies he is trying to peddle about the EFCA.
Illegal retaliation against workers who try to organize is a serious problem, and the issue deserves a full debate in Congress. But all debates must end. When it’s time to call the question, our elected officials should respect a fundamental principle of democracy: majority rule.
This bill does nothing to stop ” Illegal retaliation against workers.” In fact, it assures that unions may retaliate against any worker that does not want their particular brand of “representation.” If this bill passes, employees will not have the democratic cover of their vote being a private one. Employees will be forced to vote out in the open so that everyone involved knows how they voted. This leaves employees open to union thugs “encouraging” them to change their vote.
In fact, it also leaves that same employee open for harassment by the company, too. After all, everyone will know if they voted yes or no!
So, this bill ensures “illegal retaliation” and does not in any way prevent it. Gettelfinger is an outright liar to claim otherwise and he knows it. Otherwise, why would he have to go to these absurdist lengths to scare people into agreeing with him? I mean, let’s get serious here. Voting against the EFCA has nothing at all to do with racism.
And, lastly, it is hypocritical of Gettelfinger to pretend he’s interested in anything “democratic” as he did when he invoked “majority rule.” Gettelfinger is not interested in the rules of democracy if he wants to eliminate the secret vote, one of the oldest parts of the democratic process, with card check.
With the lies we see in Gettelfinger’s piece, we can be more sure than ever that neither insuring democracy, nor the rights of the worker is Gettelfinger’s goal here.
He really should be ashamed of himself for this garbage. But, union thugs are like that, aren’t they?
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on February 12, 2009 8:22 am
» Filed Under Bigotry, Democrats, Economy, Journalistic Malpractice, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Union Mafias/Thugs, liberalism
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Good read WTH, you can’t blame the guy (and his sad sack cronies) for keeping the “struggle” alive. It is how he makes his living mind you… and what better market to publish this to than Detroit… predominately black… union… Detroit.
Ahh, Detroit. What a wonderful place it must be! since it has an almost all union labor force, surely there is zero unemployment, and every one has wealth to burn, right? Since that city is run by African-Americans, it must be pure, clean, safe, and full to the brim with equality and justice for all, right? Detroit is the apex of Leftist policy on the workplace, race, housing, and taxation. Surely the result must be a true paradise in our midst? Can someone tell me about that wonderous land, Detroit?
Workers are under much greater risk of intimidation from employers versus unions simply because to organize a union is a direct challenge to the absolute authority of an employer. Workers typically share the same interests. Of course it’s possible that unions will intimidate anti-union workers, but I don’t think you can argue that it’s unions, not employers, who will do the bulk of the harassing during an organization drive. The real question is weather it’s harder to stand up to a union effort or to your employer? Card check was the organizing method used during the first labor movements and unions became weakened when that ability to organize quickly and conspicuously was taken away. Also, the Employee Free Choice Act doesn’t take away the secret ballot. That claim is false. The Employee Free Choice Act will protect working-class people by making it easier to form a union (which means the ability for workers to bargain for better wages, job security, healthcare, retirement). That’s the reason business people hate it. When was the last time the business community went out of it’s way to stick up for the rights of workers? Good
thing most of us have become wise to their shtick. Unions are the only reason we ever had a middle class. Every CEO enjoys the safety of a contract and so should every janitor. No person’s access to resources should be precarious and nobody should be disposable.
Hillary, this legislation will kill millions of jobs. I’m one of those who is helping to offshore them. Every job that can go to India and China, will go. Every foreign competitor will destroy its US competition. Hello, GM, Ford, Chrysler? You probably don’t remember all of the contract, unionized jobs that were lost at US Steel, do you? Yes, we’ll always need a janitor, but do you want to be a janitor, Hillary? You can’t legislate competitiveness. That’s what the Unionizers will never understand. The Soviet Union starved when every job was a union job. Union card in pocket, empty refrigerators! The new Left rallying cry!
Personally the experience I have had with unions is very lack luster. The idea behind the unions is quite good, but the execution is very poor.
My company has a mix of union and non union workers, it is not uncommon to see union workers playing solitaire or sleeping at their desks since they know they can not be fired. To getting a part weighed for shipment is even an ordeal. First I have to wait for the guy with the digital scale to come back from his 15 minute per hour break. Then I have to wait for the guy who can move the box to get back from his break. When asked if I can put the 20 pound box on the scale, I am told no the specified guy has to do it. If I do it I will have a grievance filed against me resulting in time off with no pay. Finally when both guys are here the 30 seconds it takes to move a box from a trolley onto a scale and read it takes place. Total time 30 minutes.
I would love to say this is an isolated incident here, but it is not. The union has a strangle hold on the management, and regularly intimidates or ignores non union employees.
These labor unions have connections with organized crime and the mafia they have used violence and threats to intimadate anyone who would oppose them and in the case of just how bad such unions as THE TEAMSTERS and the AFL/CIO is BREAK THE UNIONS