Labor Bosses at Rally Can't Answer Simple Question About Card Check

Organized labor recently rallied on Capitol Hill in support of card-check legislation that would effectively end secret ballot elections for workers.

At the rally, at least one worker claimed that 90% of his colleagues signed cards supporting a unionization election, but it turns out that 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? After all, employers already knew who signed those cards.

We asked that simple question to two union officials at the rally, including AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. Not surprisingly, neither really answered the question.

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• card check
• efca
• employee free choice act
• unions
• afl-cio
• john sweeney
• organized labor

[iamther]

Unions suck. When I was young I was a teamster. While I sent the packages to the truck I would run out of boxes to send. there would be a fork lift, and a hand truck right where i was and the boxes were nearby, but I would have to wait 1/2 hour for someone to bring the boxes to me,because I wasn't a material handler or a fork lift guy when I did it myself I was told I was stealing other peoples jobs. I just wanted to work

[1978RDC21]

next you'll be asking for political elections in public with only Democrat arm-twisters in the vicinity of the voter

[19independentminded6]

three words three words is all he knows..

[FreeTheWorker]

46 people support worker oppression

8 people oppose it

[FreeTheWorker]

@JayAreDubya Socialism is nothing more than when the workers own the work place. It is a business model that can compete openly and freely in any free market. You, good sir, are conditioned to hate and fear the word, but can you even provide a coherent definition of the term socialism?

The reason Americans would not knowingly accept socialism is because they would be kept from knowing what it is. It is Orwellian that people who can not even define the term sneer and jeer at it's very utterance.

[FreeTheWorker]

@shamgar001 Not to mention that Hitler used many terms as mere tools of propaganda, meant to capitalize off of their broad and far reaching moral appeal, in order to gain the support and complacency of those who he in reality oppressed.

[FreeTheWorker]

@EchoMike03 Good sir, you wage war against the working class in favor of top down business elites who have managed to hoard more wealth than all of the rest of us combined, and have now taken power over every facet of our government, so that the workers may forever be treated as disposable commodities, while the serfs who produce all the grain are given merely a bag of oats to sustain them. Congratulations, you oppose democracy and support monopolistic tyranny.

[FreeTheWorker]

@EchoMike03 Why are you against work place democracy? It's worked wonders all across europe, especially scandinavia where workers on average enjoy the highest pay and better working conditions than anywhere in the world. Do you imagine that labor has no role in growing a business? Who do you think generates the wealth for that business? Who do you think puts in the work needed for that business to prosper?

Why accept a top down monopoly in the work place then oppose it in the market place?

[Willredd94]

How the hell does a state like Iowa keep electing Harkin? He's a far-left liberal, Iowa is 30% Evangelical Christian and mostly rural.

[EchoMike03]

"Democracy in the workplace"

Call me old fashioned, but the workplace is NOT A FUCKING DEMOCRACY!!!!

It's work!!! Guy has an idea starts a company so he can provide a product or service. His business grows, he needs more people. He hires people that he determines are the best ones to not only keep the business open, but expandit if possible. Plain and simple, if you are not the boss then you do not call the shots. If you wanna call the shots, go start your own damn company!!!!

[shamgar001]

@freein2339 ...which is liberalspeak for "I got called on Godwin's Law, time to start the name calling".