Change You Will Pay For
Posted on 03/13/2009 6:45:26 AM PDT by rellimpank
President Barack Obama, once foursquare for repealing workers' right to a secret vote on unionizing, now seems to be looking for a way out of his promise. But most congressional Democrats look like they'll insist, since unions are insisting.
As long as we're having a new New Deal, unions see this "card check" law as the 1930s recrudesced, a moment to bounce back from the depths of enrolling only 7.6% of the private work force. On the Employee Free Choice Act, unions are not asking; they're telling.
This should surprise no one. Compulsion pervades unions' comeback effort. "Free Choice Act"? Free choices underlay unions' trouble, and they know it.
But "choice" sounds good, so unions say the new law would let employees choose whether to vote on unionizing. It does no such thing. The law declares that once a union collects signed cards from half the employees it wants to organize, regulators "shall not declare an election" but must say the union wins.
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The scary thing is,
most leftists actually DO think this is increasing people’s “choice”.
Change You Will Pay For
I believe the legislation also calls for a federal arbiter to determine work rules and wages once a business is unionized. So after the employees are coerced into being in a union by a couple thugs then negotiating wages, benefits and work rules won't be negotiated, but will be determined arbitrarily.
Can anyone see how this might affect investment?
Good post! People need to go to the link and read the whole article.
Sounds like the author is trying to convince himself that O is not going to follow thru. Apparently he missed the news the other day that O told the unions that he will push this thru.
Sign the petition against Card check:
FREEDOM NOT FEAR
But we can’t ask for proof of citizenship for Presidential elections (for either candidates or voters)?
Hussein can say he will push it because he knows the RATS in congress are going to avoid the issue now.
I don’t think it will go to a vote before the 2010 midterms.
I can see a damned good reason to move production to Mexico.
I was surprised. I expected the typical liberal obfuscation, or ignorance.
I'm praying that there are enough Rat reps in "right to work" states that this can be stopped. I've been looking to expand my real estate business in the south because it has a growing population and diverse economy. If this goes through I have to forget that and start looking elsewhere.
Last month I talked with a gentleman who just bought a ceiling fan manufacturing plant in Mexico. He's closing his business in Chicago.
It's so frustrating that most people don't understand that businessmen making money is not a bad thing and that they will invest where they can get a return. We have a mentality that successful people are bad and that govt can force them to run a business with declining profits and increased costs. The investors who start and run business's are not going to ignore the lessons of GM.
Just trying to get people used to the idea of voting without secret ballots.
Trying to wear us down, eh, Obie?
If you drive across at El Paso into Juarez, you will see one US manufacturing facility after another.
People don't understand capital flows to where you can make a profit. It's not wages it's productivity. If I'm paying $18 an hour vs a competitor who is paying $12 an hour, but the guy at my business is smarter uses better technology and produces twice as much I am more profitable.
Believe it or not the US is still the world's largest manufacturer. We will probably get passed by China this year or next and if forced unionization is put in place expect the decline to accelerate.
Just wait until the Voter Freedom of Choice ACT (VFOC) coming, or will that merely be an Executive Order from The One.
And in 2012 we’ll have two 6’6” members of ACORN in the voting booth with us...just to answer any questions, of course!
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