Stop Intimidation Today

by Bradley A. Blakeman, Freedoms Watch: Secret-ballot elections have long been used to ensure voters remain free of intimidation and fear of retribution based on their choice at the polls. It is disconcerting, then, that the big labor bosses and their allies in Congress are pushing for a system that authorizes unionization not by secret ballot, but by a decidedly non-secret system of card checks. It is deceptively called the Employee Free Choice Act.

Currently, workers decide whether to join a union in federally supervised secret ballot elections. However, under the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041), that secret ballot is replaced with a process that merely requires a majority of workers to sign a card to authorize organizing a union. These cards can be viewed by the employee's co-workers, superiors…and union organizers, subjecting workers to intimidation from union organizers to sign the card.

Here's another reason card check is so troubling. Even with their dwindling numbers, the big labor bosses remain powerful political players - this year alone they could spend half a billion on politics to help elect liberals. The more local shops that unionize and join the national effort, the larger financial and political footprint large labor coalitions will have in our national dialogue. The labor bosses have political power that is disproportionate to membership - and it will only get worse with card check. See also: ‘Card Checks’: Fast Track To Monopoly Unionism Law That Would Further Entrench This Big Labor Tactic Is Just What the Public Doesn’t Want Then Contact your senators! Tell them you do NOT support the Employee Free Choice Act.

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