Oh Shane, spoken(written) like a true product of our socialist colleges...
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<br />I wouldn't get too excited about "some" of your fellow employees and the "Employee Free Coice Act"--which is an oxymoron if ever there was...
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<br /><i>The Employee Free Choice Act. Also called card-check legislation, the bill would eliminate secret ballots and allow unions to be certified when a majority of employees sign the cards now used to gauge interest in voting on union participation.</i> Since when do we eliminate SECRET VOTING AT THE BALLET BOX???? This is one of our prime political freedoms--and you socialist
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<br /><i>Labor unions spent millions promoting Democratic candidates. They expect something in return. As AFL-CIO President John Sweeney told the Baltimore Business Journal, in a moment of post-election exuberance: "It was money well-spent."
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<br />Union bosses wouldn't be the only ones free to intimidate employees under the new law. Employers - including the people who write employee reviews, set bonuses and raises, and control future promotions - could stand over an employee's shoulder to see whether he or she sides with management or labor.
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<br />It's easy to imagine the anxiety of a single mother or a father of young children at the moment of truth. This isn't a bad flashback to the days when British landowners sent agents into the fields to tell tenant farmers how to vote. It is actually being considered by members of the U.S. Congress, and roughly half of them (the Democrat half) are ready to give it the OK.
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<br />Meanwhile, a vast majority of Americans, including a vast majority of union members, oppose a return to the old days. According to a January survey by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, nine of 10 union households favor protecting the right to a secret ballot</i>.
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<br /><b>Under the guise of "protecting" workers, a bill by House Democrats would strip American workers of the right to choose - freely and anonymously - whether to unionize.</b>
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<br />To get a feeling of just how undemocratic the Democrats' bill is, imagine it is November 2008 and community leaders all across America decide not to hold elections. Instead of heading into a voting booth, you're told to show up at town hall and declare publicly - in front of your neighbors and community leaders - for whom and for what you're voting.
<br />Workers will no longer be able to express their wishes privately; their "votes" will be public for everyone - union organizers, employers, co-workers - to see
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<br />UNIONS HAVE BEEN LOSING MEMBERSHIP BY THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS--NO WONDER THEY WANT TO INTIMIDATE WORKERS INTO JOINING...WELCOME TO THE NEW AMERIKA!
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<br />Oh, and need I draw a contrast to the workers in Detroit vs. the workers in Tennessee? Their employers aren't going to DC with hat in hand, begging to save the company...What is the common denominator here? DUH---UNIONS!!!!
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<br />Love the contrast in the two kinds of Democrats--Solo--the young socialist--and Brad--the old style Democrat!
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