No choice in Free Choice Act
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The thought of employers concerned about the rights of employees is amusing. They fought against regulating child labor, the minimum wage, overtime, and equal pay for equal work.

They want elections so they can have the time needed to stop unionization. They hire experts to work their magic. Here's Martin Levitt in his tell-all book, Confessions of a Union Buster: “Union busting is a field populated by bullies and built on deceit. A campaign against a union is an assault on individuals and a war on the truth. As such, it is a war without honor. The only way to bust a union is to lie, distort, manipulate, threaten, and always, always attack.”

Anger about the Act is about maintaining employer power in the workplace...just as it was when employers fought unions in the past. Same song; different verse.

I may be just a country boy, but I recognize "bull" when I see it. $75 per hour? Bull!

The only choice that will be eliminated is the choice of EMPLOYERS to demand a secret ballot election, in which they then turn around and intimidate employees. This bill hands the choice between secret ballot vs. majority sign up to the employee, as it should be! God forbid working class people maximize their value by collectively bargaining for better wages, work conditions, etc. Workers wages are out of control! LOL!

If a manufacturer or retailer were to use tactics of intimidation like requiring employees to attend mandatory meetings at which all the ills and none of the benefits of unionism were outlined, then, of course, those workers would be compelled to vote down a union, or risk losing their jobs.
People should have the right to unionize. If the newspaper for which Mr. Garvin writes was unionized, workers would have a voice in whether they could keep their jobs if concessions of contracted benefits were to be introduced.

Golly! I think it is heartwarming that Mr. Garvin has such a deep seated concern for the privacy of the American worker. You don't usually see this kind of civic mindedness these days! I have an idea. How about making the "card check" anonymous, that way nobody's privacy is violated. Here is how it would work; workers, at their leisure would sign up for the union and get a card, hush hush if they like. When more than fifty percent of the employees of an establishment held cards, by the union's count an independent accounting firm would be contracted to ensure everything is on the up and up, and representation would begin. I mean this does not have the flair of American citizens boldly taking their country back from the entrenched powers, but it would get the job done and allay Mr. Garvin's fears for the "worker's" rights.

First of all, I'm for secret ballots, but I don't know the details of this bill and I hesitate to take the word of the media about whether confidential voting is not allowed under this bill. Second of all, the figure of autoworkers making $73 an hour is a total falsehood. They make pretty much what workers at foreign auto plants make. It's their legacy pension costs that are higher and that is being addressed. The cost of labor at the big three is approximately 10% of the vehicle. Cutting wages by a whopping 20% would only save them about %2 but the repubs love to bash the unions so it's all the unions fault that they're failing, and not poor design, lousy management, and bad financial decisions.