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February 5, 2009
'Union Officials at Rally Can't Answer Simple Question About Card Check' (Video)
Topics: Political News and commentariesVia Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, unions can't offer a solid reason for wanting card check other than intimidation - which they won't admit to:
Ed Frank got a chance to ask John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, a couple of questions about the Employee Free Choice Act at a rally for the Card Check legislation yesterday, as well as another union official. The rally talked endlessly about how Card Check would protect workers and allow employees to form unions, but Ed never got an explanation of how the secret ballot manifests itself as an unfair labor practice. He didn't get any clarification from his interviews, either:
At the rally, at least one worker claimed that 90% of his colleagues signed cards supporting a unionization election, but it turns out when workers cast their secret ballots, the pro-union forces only won by two votes.Organized labor claims that secret-ballot elections lead to intimidation by employers, but if 90% of workers signed cards when confronted by union organizers in dark parking lots or in vacant break rooms and then only a very slim majority actually voted to unionize when those union operatives couldn't see their votes, doesn't that prove that union intimidation is much worse than employer intimidation?
We asked that simple question to two union officials at the rally, including AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Not surprisingly, neither were really able to answer the question.
Commentary at Hot Air. As Ed points out in his piece, the unions want Card Check not because they want to end intimidation, but because they want to rely on it.
It is clearly a recipe for intimidation:
... it is, without question, the most undemocratic federal proposal in the history of American labor relations. It is the antithesis of "free choice."The dangers are many.
Posted by Hyscience at February 5, 2009 2:09 PM
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