There was a pro-union guest on the C-SPAN morning talk show today, putting a positive spin on the Soviet-style thuggery act. The campaign to promote this has not slowed down, yet.
Democrats: “We have the votes of the unions and blacks, they’re not going to vote for the Republicans no matter what. But why should we do anything for them? They will never be satisfied, and the moderates will be ticked off.
“The only problem is how to cover it up!
As a fellow Southerner, I wonder often how a state as conservative as Arkansas continues to elect Pryor to the US Senate????? Amazing.
That’s just “rope-a-dope”. The argument will be that card check is what will save the big 3....from the non-union south. So, it IS about economics.
Big Labor’s main target is Wal-Mart and the American economy be damned
December 3rd, 2008
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
Collinsreport.net
Big Labor wants what they bought and paid for.
America’s unions gave the Democrats 52 million dollars in their effort to buy the Congress and White House. True to their “We come first; to hell with the rest of you…” attitude now they want their payback.
Paying Big Labor back is high on the list of the Democrat’s “to do list” so we will soon see passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Commonly known as the “card check” system of forcing non-unionized private businesses into union membership, it would strong arm virtually all American workers into union membership.
American workers don’t want to unionize. Currently less than 10% of privately employed workers are unionized. When last surveyed, just 13% of non-union workers were “ definitely in” should they be offered a vote on unionizing their job.
To stop its slide into non-existence, Big Labor and the Democrats have developed this plan to intimidate non-union workers into joining them and paying them and the Democrats for the “privilege” of their continued employment. They want the Democrats to forcibly do what they can not do in a free labor market.
EFCA will force “open and free” opportunities for non-union workers to say “Yes” or “No” to unionization under the watchful and intimidating eyes of union thugs.
With EFCA in place Big Labor will go after Wal-Mart. None of Wal-Mart’s 7000 stores is unionized. Its 2 million workers don’t pay union “dues.”
Wal-Mart makes life better, if it goes union we all lose, but that means nothing to unions.
Wal-Mart’s marketing strategies have saved Americans 263 billion, cutting food prices 9.1% and general consumer prices 4.2% since 1985. Since 2006 they have provided the poor and elderly $4.00 prescriptions.
All of these savings will continue under unionization, but they will be diverted to union bosses and Democrats when EFCA comes in.
The obvious purpose of EFCA is to increase union membership, but the real purpose is to extort money from workers and split it with the Democrats. We have laws to stop this, but of course Democrats don’t follow laws they don’t like so our only option is to fight EFCA and kill it now.
Postelection, Mr. Pryor isn't so committed. He's indicated he wouldn't co-sponsor the legislation again. He says he'd like to find common ground between labor and business. He is telling people the bill isn't on a Senate fast-track, anyway. His business community, which has nimbly whipped up anti-card-check sentiment across his right-to-work state, is getting a more polite hearing.
It hasn't been much noticed, but the political ground is already shifting under Big Labor's card-check initiative. The unions poured unprecedented money and manpower into getting Democrats elected; their payoff was supposed to be a bill that would allow them to intimidate more workers into joining unions. The conventional wisdom was that Barack Obama and an unfettered Democratic majority would write that check, lickety-split.
Instead, union leaders now say they are being told card check won't happen soon."
Cue Simon Cameron: "An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
And for big labor, cue the Ha Ha kid.
Reid to the Unions: Guys, I really really would like to pass card check, but I have to rearrange my sock drawer.