Don't let Ted Kennedy and George Miller take the right of workers to a Secret Ballot election away!

We are up against Kennedy-Miller's wrongly called "Employee Free Choice Act" with 204 cosponsors in the House.All Kennedy Miller's Bill will do is take away the secret Ballot for American workers in favor of the undemocratic "Card check" process. There is alot of movement on co-sponsorship. We are now at seventy six co-sponsors and counting. There is strength for Republicans on the Ed Workforce for a vote to get SBPA out of committee but this will not happen without the co-sponsorships and grassroots pressure...

What we do need is at least one hundred co-sponsors to move SBPA to a vote-any help in terms of calling these specific members would greatly advance our cause...

Call list for most likely co-sponsors of the Secret Ballot Protection Act:

1) Rep. Michael Bilirakis (FL-9) 202-225-5755 Chief of Staff: Rebecca Hyder 2) Rep. John Boozman (AR-3rd) 202-225-4301 Chief of Staff: Matt Sagely 3) Rep. Chris Cannon (UT-3rd) 202-225-7751 Chief of Staff: Joe Hunter 4) Rep. Tom Davis (VA-11th) 202-225-1492 Legis. Dir.: Bill Womack 5) Rep. John Duncan (TN-2nd) 202-225-5435 Chief of Staff: Bob Griffitts 6) Rep. Bob Goodlatte (VA-6th) 202-225-5431 Chief of Staff: Shelley Husband 7) Rep. Ralph Hall (TX-4th) 202-225-6673 Legis. Dir.: Grace Warren 8 ) Rep. Katherine Harris (FL-13th) 202-225-5015 Legis. Dir.: Ryan Work 9) Rep. Bobby Jindal (LA-1st) 202-225-3015 Chief of Staff: Timmy Teepell 10) Rep. Tom Latham (IA-4th) 202-225-5476 Chief of Staff: Michael Gruber 11) Rep. Jerry Moran (KS-1st) 202-225-2715 Legis. Dir.: Jennie Guttery 12) Rep. Randy Neugebauer (TX-19th) 202-225-4005 Chief of Staff: Gayland Barksdale 13) Rep. Ron Paul (TX-14th) 202-225-2831 Legis. Dir.: Norman Singleton 14) Rep. Ted Poe (TX-2nd) 202-225-6565 COS: Heather Ramsey 15) Rep. Jim Ryun (KS-2nd) 202-225-6601 Chief of Staff: Mark Kelly 16) Rep. John Shadegg (AZ-3rd) 202-225-3361 Legis. Dir.: Eric Schlecht 17) Rep. Zach Wamp (TN-3rd) 202-225-3271 Chief of Staff: Helen Hardin 18) Rep. Phil Gingrey (GA-11) 202-225- 2931 Legis. Dir.: Rob Herriott 19) Rep. Jeff Miller (FL-1st) 202-225-4136 Legis. Dir.: Anne Pizzato 20) Rep. Cliff Stearns (FL-6th) 202-225-5744 Legis. Dir.: Lauren Semeniuk 21) Rep. Dave Camp (MI-4) 202-225-3561 Legis. Dir.: Joanna Foust 22) Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (MD-1) 202-225-5311 Legis. Dir.: Kevin Berents 23) Rep. Edward Royce (CA-40) 202-225-4111 Chief of Staff: Amy Porter 24) Rep. Lee Terry (NE-2nd) 202-225-4155 Chief of Staff: Eric Hultman

This should pass easily, people are as sick of union corruption and racketerring as they are of the dims.

I'm pinging some fellow Irish FReepers here because this abolition of a secret ballot reminds of the former Irish prime minister, Charlie Haughey. Haughey was Ireland's Bubba in more ways than one, but my main point here is; when a vote was been taken in the Irish parliament, he would always declare an 'open ballot' - in other words he would know who in his party voted against him. There was one case where a politician was beaten up in a corridor by a gang of thugs - by strange coincidence he had previously voted against Haughey!!

Communist Goals (1963)

“45 goals”

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

Does it surprise you that Kennedy's name is on this Socialist bill? I don't resent his wealth, I think wealth is great however, I do resent people like Mr. Kennedy exploiting the hoi polloi in such an egregious fashion - blatant lying. His un-American activities now lead him to abolish the private vote of citizens, for what purpose?

The vodka level has finally cooked his brain – Traitor to all values American.

Part of the ACLU manifesto too?

Recent evidence shows Senator Joe McCarthy was right!!

Here's a link (read the VENONA files section):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_mccarthy

More sick, however, of corporate corruption and racketerring because there is so much more of it.

Published Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Rally supports cancer center

BY SUMMER BANKS
Staff Reporter

Members of the community rally in support of the proposed $430 million Cancer Center. The center was supposed to break ground last month, but missed its deadline. Some are worried that its absence is depriving the city of a potential economic boost. (LELAND MILSTEIN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

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More than 60 hospital employees and community members assembled Tuesday in a rally organized by Yale-New Haven Hospital officials in support of the construction of the proposed $430 million cancer center, which failed to meet the deadline to break ground by the end of September.

Several hospital workers and community members who attended said they are concerned that the delay in construction of the center is adversely affecting cancer patients' welfare and depriving the city of a potential boost to economic development. Some attendees said they think local interest groups concerned with employee unionization at Yale-New Haven are set on blocking the center's construction. But labor representatives and other community members said that although they support the center's construction, they first want to ensure that the center grants its employees the right to unionize and that it is environmentally safe.

The rally took place at noon outside the hospital's Grace Building. Though most of the attendees were hospital employees, local labor, clergy and community leaders also spoke at the event.

New Haven Chamber of Commerce President Tony Rescigno, who spoke at the rally, said the project is too valuable to the New Haven economy to delay or cancel.

"Anywhere else in Connecticut, people would be falling all over themselves for this project," he said.

Christian Jensen '06, a member of the informal group Students for a Yale Cancer Center, said he thinks one of the principal causes of the delay has been the involvement of the Service Employees International Union in the dispute over employee unionization.

"The SEIU has used its influence in the Mayor's Office and in the Board of Aldermen to prevent the necessary construction approvals from being granted," he said.

But SEIU spokesman William Meyerson said the organization is not aiming to cancel the plans for the center. Meyerson said the SEIU believes that the other factors involved, including area housing, parking and employee unionization, should be addressed.

"The workers' having a right to a secret-ballot election without management interference and intimidation is just one of those issues," he said.

Meyerson said members of the Board of Aldermen have voiced additional concerns regarding the hospital's zoning proposal and effects on the local environment. Ward 1 Alderwoman Rebecca Livengood '07 said she is in favor of the proposed center as long as the center is built in an environmentally friendly manner and a neutrality agreement is reached governing Yale-New Haven workers' rights to unionize.

Josh Eidelson '06, a member of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee and Community Organized for Responsible Development, also said he is looking forward to the center's construction, as long as the hospital focuses on making the center accessible to the community.

Yale-New Haven announced on Sept. 7 that the state's Office of Health approved its application for the construction of the center, but the project has not yet received a go-ahead from city officials.