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March 26, 2009
Card Check Means Union Slavery
Watch this chilling video and hear how the union thugs gain access to the home addresses and phone numbers of employees. The company, in this case the Chrysler Corp., buckled to the union and gave out the private info.
Card Check Means Union Slavery
Suppose to vote in state and national elections you weren't allowed a secret ballot behind a curtain. Suppose to vote you had to go downtown and vote in the baseball stadium, where your choices would be flashed on the scoreboard, before a howling mob. Your boss, and your co-workers, and your neighbors would all know who you voted for.
That is how the unions and liberal Democrats want to change the law in regard to employees choosing whether they want a union.
For decades now, employees have been able to vote in secret ballot certification elections to determine whether they really wanted a union in their work place. In about half of these elections, for many years now, the workers have said no to the union.
Workers v. Unions
Why would workers not want a union? First, unions are expensive. Union dues for major, national unions now often run $500 to $600 a year. Once you get a union in your workplace, if you don't pay the dues, in most states you are automatically fired. Unless your state has a right-to-work law, once your employer signs a contract with a union, you must join it and pay its dues whether you want to or not.
Moreover, your union may call a strike when you can't afford not to work and miss your paycheck. Under current law, you can still cross the picket line and continue working. But you are then subject to union harassment and even violence, even after the strike ends. And check it out for yourself: there is a long history of union violence.
In addition, if you work hard and try to get ahead, the union often works against you. Union work rules routinely require advancement based on seniority in the union, not hard work, skill, and productivity.
Unions also have a bad history of driving the employer into the ground over the years, with unnecessary costs and excessive demands, resulting in fewer and fewer jobs, until the employer is finally gone.
Unions vs. Free Choice
The controversy over card check legislation shows how concerned union bureaucracies are regarding the wishes of the workers. This legislation bears the Orwellian name "The Employee Free Choice Act." It would end secret ballot elections for deciding whether the workers want a union -- elections, remember, where the workers have rejected the union half the time.
Instead union organizers would take a card endorsing union representation to individual workers to sign. These union organizers know where you work, where you live, where your car is parked in the parking lot. They probably know where your kids go to school. They may have kids at that school as well. A group of them can come to your house after work and ask you to sign the card. Are you going to tell them no to their face? Is this really a free choice? Are many going to tell them no after one incident of slashed tires or a broken windshield, at home or at work, or a kid harassed at school? Again, there is a long history of union violence. Intimidation and harassment are routine union practices.
Wild Thing's comment..........
The goal is to generate more money and goons to elect liberals. This whole thing is wrong in every way.
"These union organizers know where you work, where you live, where your car is parked in the parking lot. They probably know where your kids go to school. They may have kids at that school as well. A group of them can come to your house after work and ask you to sign the card."
Might mean some union thugs get shot out of retaliation.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at March 26, 2009 05:45 AM
Comments
Oh these bastards are brutal. When my wife worked at the Hospital in Ohio, the union came in and got the Aids and custodial workers to join a Union. Now get this, they were the Teamsters Union at a Hospital.
They did organize them. The getting there, was the intimidating part. The people who wanted the Union, gave the names and addresses of the ones who did not want to join. The Union showed up at their homes and told them in no uncertain terms that it would be in their 'Families' best interest to join the Union. They were threatened, intimidated, and some were even threatened with a beating, if they didn't join. They were also told not to speak out against the Union or the consequences would be worse.
The Card check is just another form of intimidation and forcing the Employees of a company to join, hahaha, yeah right, join, Forced into a Union.
In the trades, in Ohio, all the inspectors, government jobs of course, are Union members. So if you want a job to pass, you had better join the Union, otherwise you won't work. The state will do nothing about the intimidation tactics by the Unions. You don't belong to Union, you are on your own.
Posted by: Mark at March 26, 2009 10:36 AM
I have had a couple of experiences with unions, bad experiences. I lost a good job when the union moved in. They tried to intimidate me. That did not work. So they got my wages frozen. I quit. Within four years the company was sold because the costs went up and quality went down.
In 1967 the Longshoresmen went on strike on all three coasts. They even refused to load ships with material for Vietnam. For a month or two in Nam our fighter aircraft flew with reduced bombloads and our artillery rounds were rationed. Men's lives were jeopardized because of union greed.
Unions have caused so many jobs to go overseas . The unions eventually put themselves out of business. Steel, textiles and now automobiles among other commodities are now primarily foreign manufactured.
The thug aspect of unions is well known and documented. I experienced it and don't want to see it become commonplace. Luckily Texas is a right to work state.
Posted by: TomR at March 26, 2009 12:28 PM
Mark,thank you so much for sharing about that happened in Ohio. That is terrible!!! I never liked Unions and for that very reason.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 26, 2009 07:49 PM
Tom, how awful, thank you for sharing about your experiences with Unions. And also I never knew that about the ships like that with the Unions.
Your right they are thugs and now we have a pro thug government to agree with their demands.
Posted by: Wild Thing at March 26, 2009 07:54 PM
