Posted on 08/08/2008 9:19:51 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
On August 8, George McGovern had an editorial published by the Wall Street Journal that astounds for the fact that it runs counter to union aims.
In it, McGovern warns the unions against their woefully misnamed "Employee Free Choice Act," the legislation that has as one of its main goals the elimination of democratic styled, secret balloting for union elections. Unions actually wish to eliminate the union member's ability to keep his vote private. This act will serve to put pressure on union voters to conform to the union's party line because, after all, every vote they make as individuals will be open for their union bosses to see.
Saying that voting is an "immense privilege," McGovern worries that the unions are abut to destroy that privilege.....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Al Franken is FOR it.
Chairman Mao and Uncle Joe Stalin would be proud of these unions wanting to get rid of the secret ballot.
How would union elections where there’s no secret ballot be any different from elections under communism or other totalitarian regimes?
I think he crossed the labor leaders at least once before. When he ran for President in 1972, there were some in the labor movement who wouldn’t forgive him because he had once voted the wrong way (I think it had to do with Taft-Hartley).
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