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• Wednesday, November 5, 2008 10:59 AM

  Card Check

  The Right Wingers call the it Card Check legislation but it is formally known as the 'Employee Free Choice Act'. Employees now can unionize when a majority have signed a card to that effect but currently the employer can choose to accept or refuse it. If they refuse it a formal election is held within 90 days supervised by the National Labor Relations Board.

  As it stands now, within that ninety days, the all too typical employer will have fired the employee union organizers and intimidated the remainder of employees out of voting for a union.

  Employers hate unions because they are effective. Employers do everything they can to intimidate their employees out of seeking a union in the first play or voting for one if it ever gets that far. They foist endless propaganda about the evils of unions, about the evils of union management.

  In all human affairs, there are failures because of human nature, unions are no exception. But it can easily be demonstrated that they succeed in improving conditions and pay for their members far beyond whatever small financial cost there is to those members.

  The Employers' mouthpieces, the Corporate Media are a primary conduit for this propaganda.

  What would be best for the workers and for the Country would be to repeal, at the very least, the most egregious portions of the Taft Hartley act which allow States under the slavish misnomer of 'Right To Work', to deny workers the ability to enter into an agreement that requires the employer to recognize their union security. It is better known as the RIGHT TO WORK CHEAP, because without union security that is the only right the employee has.

  Ralph Nader has been the only one consistently talking about this, neither major party gets that far.

  UNTIL THEY DO, the 'Employee Free Choice Act' would go a significant distance to rectify the injustice as it now stands.

  Obama has said he will sign it.

  —bennygale Read bennygale's other letters
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