Look for the Union label, means it will cost more, take longer to finish, and be a pain in the process
Posted on 04/22/2009 1:56:19 PM PDT by neverdem
Thanks for your tale of woes with the union.
“Since when is the secret ballot a basic tenet of democracy?”
March 18, 2009, 6:58 am
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
http://collinsreport.net
The tide might be turning in our favor. We have stopped Card Check!
On the same day Card Check failed, James Hoffa, president of the perpetually scandal ridden Teamsters Union, was so sure it would sail through and become law, he smugly asked, “Since when is the secret ballot a basic tenet of democracy?”
We answered this thug’s snarky question loud and clear, “Since July 4, 1776 Mister Hoffa.”
Last week America won a major victory in our battle against Obama’s socialism. By keeping up the pressure we beat Card Check. Whether the pimps in the media want to credit us or not: WE WON.
When Card Check was introduced last Tuesday it failed and it was quickly hidden away in both Congressional and Senate committees.
Big labor ordered its Democrat footstools to ram through a new procedure for unionizing currently non-union businesses. Called the Employee free Choice Act, but commonly called “Card Check” this scheme would have allowed unions to use open non secret ballots to intimidate workers into voting to unionize their workplace.
So far the Marxist Democrats have had things their way, but our push back is getting some traction.
The number of cosponsors for Card Check tells the story. Although 220 in the House and 39 in the Senate are impressive numbers, in this instance they were the same as a final vote tally for this scheme. The cosponsors represented only those prepared to vote yes. The other Democrats were saying they were afraid to support it. We did that! Ordinarily EVERY Democrat should have jumped to become a co-sponsor, but they didn’t. You and I scared them.
The Democrats now have good reason to be scared. Rasmussen’s new congressional generic poll has the GOP up over Democrats for the first time in a long time.
We may be seeing the start of a turn around faster than anyone could have predicted.
Don’t let up. Please help our special election candidates Jim Tedisco in the New York 20th http://www.jimtedisco.com/ and Rosanna Pulido in the 5th Ill. http://www.rosannapulido2009.com/
Being represented by a union is a human right?
I supposed getting a nurse to scratch my ass is a human right too?
Why don't we ask what's left of GM. What an idiot.
Are you sure about that? I haven't looked at a state by stat breakdown, but parties with big majority, by definition, have more seats to defend. And they don't have GWB to kick around any more.
Once, in the office of a railroad I contracted for, a union guy showed up with a phone in his hand he had been directed to hook up. He asked where it was supposed to go. We pointed to a desk where a new employee sat. It turned out that the desk was positioned against the wall so he couldn’t reach the jack. He informed us as much and started to walk away with the new phone, saying it wasn’t his job to move desks. We offered to do it for him but he would have none of it. A day or two later another guy showed up and spend about 5 seconds dragging the desk a few feet from the wall. A few days after that the original guy showed up and plugged in the phone. After that the employee who’s desk it was, pushed the desk back against the wall. A few days later, you guessed it, union guy number two showed up to push the desk back against the wall. And of course expressed dissatisfaction that the job had been done by non union labor.
There are many Republican retirements so I am not optimistic. If the economy continues to decline, the rats will have a problem. I suspect there may be a small rebound before another dive occurs however.
Look for the Union label, means it will cost more, take longer to finish, and be a pain in the process
Good old K Street, where the big tea party never stopped, has all but halted organized labor's effort to make it easier for workers to unionize. After massive lobbying both by labor and by business, it appears that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which, as it now stands, would allow workers to organize in many cases merely by signing cards instead of holding elections, will not have the 60 votes required to get past a Republican filibuster in the Senate. Now, to be pro-labor is to resign yourself to years of failures and defeats, with few tea parties along the way for consolation. Even so, the setback on EFCA has to be a bitter one. Union members worked hard to elect Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress, as they did to put Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton in the White House. And now, just as in those previous two periods of Democratic governance, labor's friends are having trouble enacting basic labor-law reforms.
Reforms? Reforms!!!???
Eliminating the secret ballot is a reform?
Sure, the same way that having ACORN fill out all the “absentee” ballots in close races is a reform.
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