Posted on 02/23/2009 6:08:48 AM PST by reaganaut1
President Obama and his advisers insist that they place national economic recovery over every other policy objective. However, when it comes to labor policy, they support measures that economic history indicates would significantly hinder such recovery.
Perhaps the most shocking is Sen. Ted Kennedy’s cynically mislabeled Employee Free Choice Act, known more generally as “card check.” Card check would not promote “free choice” but would instead take away employers’ right to demand secret-ballot elections for union representation.
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The Kennedy card-check scheme is far from the only economy-crushing Big Labor special-interest legislation that Obama has endorsed. The trial-lawyer-friendly “Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act” already has been enacted, removing time limits on wage-discrimination cases. Alleged victims can now bring such cases long after any alleged discrimination has occurred, even after the alleged discriminators have died. Employers will surely respond by setting aside more money to settle future employment-discrimination claims — money that otherwise could be put to productive use.
A third example is the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act. This legislation would force states and localities to recognize unions as the representatives for their police officers, firefighters, and EMTs — and thus force countless workers to accept unions as their monopoly-bargaining agents, even if they have never voted to unionize.
The new administration is bringing Big Labor far closer to its decades-old goal of enacting a federal law forcing unions on state and local government employees of all types across America. Similar policies adopted at the state and local levels are already helping drive taxpayer-funded public-pension and health-care costs sky-high. The city of Vallejo, Calif., went bankrupt in 2008 because of the excessive costs of public-safety monopoly bargaining — an extreme case, but an indication that it would take exorbitant taxes to support the forced unionization of government employees nationwide.
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“Perhaps the most shocking is Sen. Ted Kennedy’s cynically mislabeled Employee Free Choice Act, known more generally as “card check.” Card check would not promote “free choice” but would instead take away employers’ right to demand secret-ballot elections for union representation.”
Democrap ‘logic’:
It’s OK to require proof of union membership in order to vote in a union election. It’s NOT OK to provide proof of citizenship to vote in a U.S. election. (Or, heck, even to run for POTUS!)
Folks, about the only way we can fight this Orwellian/Fascist takeover of our lives is at the state level.
http:www.tenthamendmentcenter.com
Write your state legislators.
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