CDW Minnesota Senate Ad on Private Ballots

[FluxCapacitor2008]

I know that an organized work force scars the hell out of you 3% guys or you $250k and up guys. Companies that move overseas should be taxed to hell and companies that stay in the US should have vary low taxes. If companies move overseas for the cheep labor the items that they send back to the states should be taxed to hell.

[cojobo34]

i hate puppets, i mean politicians. fuck the nwo, illuminati, royal imbred fuckin families, and the greedy international bankers who control the world... but atleast they say thank u when the shove it up your ass and break it off. have a nice day.

[bigfilmhat]

I wouldn't have a problem with a "secret ballot", but it HAS TO be a secret from EMPLOYERS too. Companies can't hire Jackson-Lewis to bust the union, fire workers who are union friendly, interview to captive audiences and still claim that the ballot is "secret".

[paraparanormal]

Huh?

[pointybongo]

Lies.

[Deciheximal]

Speaking as a simple critique against the filming style of the commercial itself, the mobster snaps too late! Or the guys come out too early.

[mcj3691]

This ad is completely misleading. Do your research. You think Norm Coleman cares about union workers? The Southeast Minnesota Area Labor Council said "Norm Coleman is not on our side.Norm Coleman consistently puts special corporate interests and the Republican Party ahead of the best interests of middle-class Minnesotans". Check his voting record. He has consistently voted against workers overtime rights, against strengthening Social Security and against extending unemployment benefits.

[DParker39]

Norm Coleman supports the private ballot and our nation's democratic principles. Al Franken wants a system where Big Labor calls all the shots. Letting union bosses watch over my shoulder will expose me to all sorts of retribution if I don't support the union. I don't want anyone to know how I vote, not my employer and not my "friends" in the union; but this bill let everyone know how I vote. That's not a free choice, that's a forced choice.

[Judd31682]

DEAN BARKLEY!!!!

[emersonushc13]

Your vote should be kept a secret. Any other way is a load of crap.

[pq9q]

he didn't say eliminate it, he suggested we check to see if the voters are ACTUALLY union members. norm coleman can suck a big fat wiener

[o0xst]

I smell a rat.

[conkreen]

This is disgustingly misleading.

As a AFSCME union member I am outraged at such an add that attacks Franken for standing up for worker rights.

The Act would allow the workers to choose if it will take just the union authorization card to be recognized. This will not take away voting, but allow the workers to decide if a vote is necessary not the business. This is putting the power in the workers hands.

I am proud of Franken for this and of my union for supporting him. -Aisling

[s4xton]

This is completely false. What Franken is supporting along with unions and union members... does not force the removal of a secret ballot. It's utter BS.

[DParker39]

Great ad. Franken is supporting union leaders, not workers. This law would put union organizers in total control the sign-up process. Will union organizers call for a secret ballot election if they can use peer pressure and coercion to reach a simple majority? Do you think workers have any freedom to choose if a paid union activist is staring over their shoulder?

[fatbow]

Your comments show your ignorance to the way the organizing process works today and how the Employee Free Choice Act would change it. The Act puts the control back in the hands of workers and imposes penalties for employers who today get away with intimidation, coercion, and harassment. It puts some teeth back in to the National Labor Relations Act. Period. Cards are collected no differently under EFCA than they are today. Get educated man.

[putittogether]

Simple math for dumb Americans:

Middle Class tax's in America. (that's the workingman)

Inflation 4% (if you don't know that's a tax then you got a lot to learn about your money)

Property and misc tax's 6%

City sales tax 6%

State 9%

Federal 26%

TOTAL == 51%

Note: Many hidden taxes were left out that you pay everyday and the real number is much higher, but too horrifying to print for your small minds to fully comprehend.

[kcmcdonald2003]

nice add! Now if Norm could come around on the ANWR issue i could vote for him with a good feeling.

[alexd101]

Wow, this is so misleading.

[Gammaclipper]

How so? The current law is a secret ballot. The proposed law would change that to signing a card and has no provision for worker privacy.

[conkreen]

Not so. They can still choose to have a vote if they would like. They being if 30% of the WORKERS want a vote. The workers not the business would control weather a vote is needed. This stops the business from tying to intimated to the workers from with drawing the want of a union. Basically the proposed it just the same as the current expect that the proposed shift the who makes the decision of a vote fro the business to the worker. Also currently workers still fill out the cards.

-Aisling

[DParker39]

So let me get this straight, a paid union organizer goes into a business collects signed cards from 30% of the workforce and then calls everybody in for the election? Get real. Why call for an election you could lose at 30% when a simple majority of cards means immediate recognition? Isn't it the job of the paid union organizer to win? Is the union organizer going to advise workers about election rights?

Sounds like the union is calling all the shots, not workers.

[conkreen]

No, how it is, is that those who want a union fill out the cards, this would mean that it will become a union without a vote, unless 30% of the workers would like a vote. And just so you know Unions do tell people about their rights when starting a union.

-Aisling

[DParker39]

Bruce Raynor, president of the UNITE HERE union, must not have been speaking for all unions when he quipped: "There's no reason to subject the workers to an election."

[LiberalshateAmerica]

Good to see a liberal stand up for what is right for a change.

[partypeoplediedie]

Can you believe this shit? The government making secret ballots illegal. So that unions can force workers to vote their way.

I'd say that was pretty cuntish. But that's just me.

[alexd101]

Wrong. Only after the majority of workers sign up for the union. Why would you need a ballot then? Simple, to give more time to attack the union.

[Gammaclipper]

But what if a worker doesn't want to be in the union? Well he's out a job because the union forced a contract with the business that said it could only employ union members.

Result is that all workers, even those that don't want the union but can't get work elsewhere end up paying dues. Unions are a business. Their membership has been declining in America because they've outlived their usefullness in some industries. They need more members so they can have more money, this is a way to do it.

[Makron5]

Actually in Europe Unions have had a very positive effect and unions in America have become very misunderstood. There are some awful unions, but unions in general have upped worker safety and have supported workers rights. The one for GM however should just curl up and reform for their horrendous backpay scheme that adds extreme legacy costs that make them non-competitive with Japanese manufacturers.

[Gammaclipper]

Ok, time for an insiders perspective on unions. I am a member of the UFCW because I am working in a grocery store to help pay my way through school for my second degree. Because I am technically part-time I don't get anything but I still pay dues. Joining the UFCW is a condition of employment even though I didn't want to. Union contract says that I get a 15 minute break every 3 hours but I don't get to take it. Managers and senior staff do get benefits and set hours.

[Craigbe]

Too FUNNY!