Dems to Take up Card Check on Tuesday
-By Warner Todd Huston
The Senate has secret elections for its leaders. The House of Representatives also uses a closed ballot, one not open to public view, for its own members. We all, you and I, have a secret ballot when we vote for president or for our local officials at our local polling place. It’s one of the oldest aspects of the democratic system.
Yet, Democrats want to take that oldest part of the democratic process away from 105 million Americans.
For their support in the last election Democrats are poised to launch an effort to force a payback to Big Unions through Congress, perhaps as early as Tuesday. That payback will be in the form of the woefully misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” — which is neither free nor any choice. In this legislation, unions can dispense with the ages old secret ballot for union members and force them to sign public cards revealing their personal vote to everyone. Naturally, when a voter’s choice is known to everyone, pressure will be greater to conform and the conscience of the union member can easily take a back seat to that of getting along with union bosses.
In an effort to inform as many people as possible on this unAmerican payoff to corrupt Big Labor Associated Builders and Contractors and Contractors Free Enterprise Alliance is launching www.cardcheckquiz.com.
Right now, Congress is considering the misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act.” But it would strip an estimated 105 million working Americans of the right to a private ballot in union elections. Instead, employees would be subject to “card check” — a process that’s pen to coercion, confusion, and intimidation.
Take the quiz to find out if EFCA will steal your private vote.
Why do Democrats want to take away the very access to a secret ballot that they jealously guard for themselves? As a corrupt bargain for the millions upon millions that Big Labor pumped into Democratic Party campaign coffers, of course.
And if the Democratic Party gets its way, union thugs will be intimidating union voters with impunity.
It’s up to us to stop them and save the conscience vote for millions of American workers.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on March 10, 2009 6:15 am
» Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Communism, Democrats, Education, Elections, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Union Mafias/Thugs, liberalism
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Huston, you have a problem. You are again misrepresenting a bill that LEVELS A PLAYING FIELD that right now is tilted FAR in favor of employers. The bill DOES NOT remove the secret ballot option as you misstated. In fact, the bill mandates a secret ballot election if requested by ONLY 30 percent of employees. I guess if anti-union mouthpieces, such as yourself, keep repeating a lie then maybe somebody will start to believe it!
You are rather foolish to believe that unions won’t strong arm EVER voter into card check once they have it in law.These union thugs can’t wait to be rid of the secret ballot. Intimidation and violence is all unions know.
This should not be allowed to happen!
Intimidation and violence is all unions know? I guess if you get all your information from movies then you don’t pay attention to real life. It’s funny how you repeated the secret ballot defense in your response — this phony argument seems to have been driven into your head and now you can’t shake it loose. Remember, the system is heavily weighted to allow employers to intimidate workers and use strongarm tactics against those seeking a union. But I’m to understand this situation is hunky-dory for you. My advice: Just vote Republican and shut the **** up!