Unions may seem like a boring subject, but it isn’t. My uncle, Adolph, worked proudly for 39 years on a car assembly line in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Before there was a union he shared this experience. When he was first employed at the car plant; he worked extremely long days for 2 weeks. He then went to pick up his paycheck, but was told, “Sorry, you’re not going to get paid for the 2 weeks you worked!” Adolph asked why not & was told, “We just wanted to see if you were gonna be a good employee or not.” My uncle did not get paid & had no recourse but to stay on the job because jobs were scarce. It was during the Depression Era & he had a wife & 2 children to feed.
Adolph, not one to take things lying down, took action & helped organize a union. Life got much better & fairer for its assembly line workers & all other employees.
Now, Barack Hussein Obama, if elected, will take away the worker’s right to a secret ballot. If & when that happens, intimidation will soon follow & the clock will have been turned back to the days when workers were unimportant & easily manipulated.
Esther
Under the EFCA, union organizers could browbeat workers into signing the cards, which would then impose the union automatically without a secret-ballot vote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yVC2VLF99w Video: 5 min. 43 sec. “Senator Obama is planning to take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections,” he said.
McCain is referring to a plan supported by labor union leaders. Currently, workers must get a majority of their colleagues to sign an authorization form to ask for union representation — then hold a secret-ballot vote to finalize it.
The change Obama supports would let a union be recognized by the National Labor Relations Board immediately after a majority of workers sign the authorization.
Former Sen. Geo. McGovern’s opposition carries significance because of his support for organized labor throughout his entire career. He emphasizes that democracy is a higher value than unionism. In the past, he has lamented the fact that unions appear to have forgotten that.
CNN did a “fact check” on the EFCA & Obama’s support for it . . .
McGovern wrote an op-ed column against it in the Wall Street Journal & cut an ad
