Posted on 07/20/2004 9:53:29 AM PDT by drypowder
Washington, DC (July 20, 2004) -
In an issue emerging as a top election-year priority for organized labor officials, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and John Edwards (D-NC) have joined with Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to file formal arguments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) urging the agency governing America's private sector workplaces to deny employees access to the less-abusive secret-ballot election process when choosing whether to unionize.
"For two politicians who claim they'll stick up for America's workers, taking away basic freedoms is a strange way to show it," said Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation.
Kerry, Edwards, Kennedy, 14 other Senators, and 31 congressmen joined together to file the amicus curiae brief, perhaps the most noteworthy of dozens of briefs filed last week by representatives of management, unions, employees, public policy groups, and Members of Congress - arguing either in opposition to, or in favor of, the plight of disenfranchised employees aided by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys.
The Board invited the briefs after voting 3-2 to determine the enforceability of increasingly common arrangements intended to limit further employees' freedom to determine whether union officials are authorized to represent them. These arrangements, sometimes called "card check" or "neutrality agreements," involve high-pressure card solicitation drives that frequently result in complaints of union coercion from rank-and-file workers.
Replacing the less-abusive secret ballot election process with "card check" has become the number one requirement of candidates to obtain Big Labor's support in the 2004 elections. According to the AFL-CIO's recent statement to BNA's Daily Labor Report, "we don't have any issue that's a litmus test, but this is as close as it gets." According to the AFL-CIO, more than 80 percent of newly organized employees each year are already unionized through the controversial "card check" process while the traditional election process, favored by federal labor policy and the courts, is used far less frequently.
"Having trouble selling even a bare majority of workers on the merits of unionization, union officials are resorting to the in-your-face ‘card check' process to intimidate workers into supporting a union," said Gleason.
Congressman Charlie Norwood (R-GA), a signatory to a separate congressional brief and lead sponsor of legislation to reduce "card check" organizing abuses, said "Hard-working folks deserve the right to a fair and secret election - not the threats, arm-twisting, and shakedown tactics that come with ‘card check' campaigns."
The lead consolidated cases at the NLRB, brought by Foundation attorneys, arise out of the automotive industry where suppliers have cut deals with union officials to waive the secret ballot election process and to assist in pressuring employees to sign union authorization cards. The coercively obtained cards were then counted as "votes" in favor of authorizing the union to act as the employees' monopoly bargaining agent.
These pacts also typically require employers to hand over their employees' private information (including home addresses) to union organizers, subject employees to unsolicited "home visits," and permit wide access to company facilities - resulting in employee complaints of browbeating and other harassment.
Waffel,Teeth,and Fats are all for the workers as long as they do what they are told.
What I find funny is That management is worst abuser of workers rights and they always blame the Union's.
"What I find funny is That management is worst abuser of workers rights and they always blame the Union's."
Communist unions are NEVER on the worker's side. Try to do anything on your own, or better yet for yourself while your in a union controlled company!
Try to do something better - to learn more - and the union thugs will lean HARD spouting their mantra of "you'll make everyone else look bad"
The #1 union mantra? "IT AIN'T MY JOB!"
I guess it depends on what Union.
has anyone who've been paying union dues NOT been ripped off by the union bosses?
kerry, testimony before Congress, 22 April, 1971, kerry says, "I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government,...."*(not on any authorised mission by the U.S. Government or by the U.S. military, kerry and his VVAW group meets and negotiates with the then enemy).
*excerpted from the Official U.S. Congressional Record dated 22 April, 1971.
"revamp the U.S. military", read as kerry's plan to PURGE the U.S. Military of Pro U.S. Military Veterans and Republicans, make it totally dependant on U.N. forces support for any significant achievement capable military(similar to france,germany, etc.), Turn home based U.S. Armed Forces, Intelligence agencies and Law Enforcement agencies into the democratic party's{including CPUSA and DSA} Praetorian Guard!!!!
kerry stabbed U.S. in the back continually since his return from Viet Nam. How much more backstabbing from this 22 April, 1971 testimony(self confessed traitor) before Congress that he(kerry) met with the then enemy in Paris, are we supposed to stand????
Some More Interesting historical news about kerry:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091943/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160580/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165078/posts
Some of kerry's friends listed below:
http://www.cpusa.org/
http://www.dsausa.org/
DSA's "Progressive Caucus" Links below:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
They are the Enemy Within!!!!
I have at least one or two interesting posts about said such subject matter, below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1165983/posts
And see:
http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html
More: Communist Party Backs the RATS!!!! below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171176/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1172055/posts
Sure that happens. How many stock holders have by ripped off by greedy executives?
Bump. Maybe this was the reason the Berger-gate broke last night into today. To take the focus off THIS.
"deny employees access to the less-abusive secret-ballot election process"
THIS IS ABOUT INTIMIDATION!! If you have secret ballot, the employees can vote against the union without having to publically acknowledge how they voted.
If these people have to vote publically .. the goons can intimidate them into voting for the union .. because if they don't they will be singled out by the thugs.
Also, the retaliation that is sure to occur if they vote against.
Thanks for the chuckles!
Exactly!!
LOL! I sure hope so.
Isn't that the some old attitude that the demonrats had toward the plantation workers in their glory days back before 1865?
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