Obama supports union organizing; Card-check voting at issue.

Legislation that would make it more difficult for workers to hold a private ballot vote in unionization drives, which critics say would lead to harassment and intimidation, has spurred a pitched battle between powerful labor unions supportive of Sen. Barack Obama and big business in the presidential campaign.

Seen by the AFL-CIO as a way to boost union rolls by hundreds of thousands of new members, the hotly-contested bill has become this year's No. 1 election issue for organized labor. Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has promised union bosses that the Employee Free Choice Act will become law in 2009 if he wins

The idea of getting rid of secret ballots is draconian. McCain should come out strongly against this if he hasn't already. This is un-American pure and simple. This should be an issue in House races. Union members should be ashamed of this kind of behavior. Being a union member shouldn't mean you support forced or intimidation in organizing.

We need to come up with another name for it, akin to the ‘death tax’—because I think it’s a pretty good issue for us. Off the top of my head, I think of ‘Intimidation Voting’ as a passable term. As in, ‘Obama is for Intimidation Voting on unions in the workplace’.

It isn’t as if McCain has anything to lose by standing up to the coercion of labor unions, wholly owned subsidiaries of the Democrat Party.

OpenSecrets.org has chronicled the top 100 political givers from 1989-2008. The top 16 appear below. After the group’s name and cumulative dollars donated, the first percentage is donations to Democrats, the second percentage to Republicans.

One union actually gave a whopping 9 percent of its contributions to Republicans. It’s probably been called on the carpet for its apostasy.

1 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $39,392,153 98% 1%
2 AT&T Inc $39,065,076 43% 56%
3 National Assn of Realtors $32,336,506 47% 52%
4 American Assn for Justice $28,727,389 90% 9%
5 Goldman Sachs $28,701,957 62% 36%
6 Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $27,898,934 97% 2%
7 National Education Assn $27,713,779 93% 6%
8 Laborers Union $26,503,339 91% 7%
9 Service Employees International Union $25,931,093 95% 3%
10 Carpenters & Joiners Union $25,627,582 89% 9%
11 Teamsters Union $24,992,064 92% 7%
12 Communications Workers of America $24,871,179 99% 0%
13 American Medical Assn $24,728,871 38% 61%
14 United Auto Workers $24,343,620 98% 0%
15 Citigroup Inc $24,271,821 49% 50%
16 American Federation of Teachers $24,113,243 98% 0%

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