Dave recently submitted a helpful comment on the post Liberals and Unions about what is really going on behind the EFCA, it looks like Rachel Maddow isn’t being honest with us. Here’s Dave’s comment,
Actually Rachel Maddow is not telling the truth. The latest union/leftist spin is that the “workers” decide whether a union comes to a worksite through the secret ballot process or the signing card process. This decision is made by the union organizers. The choice is: 1. Get 50% plus one to sign cards and then give them to the labor board to get recognition instantly, or 2. Get 50% plus one to sign the cards and then ask the labor board to hold a secret ballot election (I guess in case the paid union organizer wants to make sure that the employees knew what they were signing, ha ha). Choice 2 will never happen. Unions know it. EFCA takes away the secret ballot, and mandates arbitration in bargaining. That is why employers and those who believe in democracy oppose this joke of a bill.
Interesting, so the choice is between having a secret ballot for no apparent reason, and not having one. And the union organizers get to make this choice, not the employees. I verified this on Wikipedia,
Under current U.S. labor law, the National Labor Relations Board will certify a union as the exclusive representative of bargaining unit employees by card check process or secret ballot election, which can be held if more than 30% of employees in a bargaining unit sign statements asking for representation by a union. If enacted, EFCA would require the NLRB to certify a bargaining representative without directing an election if a majority of the bargaining unit employees signed cards, the card check process.[1] In effect, the secret ballot would be replaced by a public one.
I think Rachel would be smart enough to know that union organizers are often as corrupt as employers, if not more so. I guess what this bill really does is it prevents the official secret ballot vote which gives the employers time to respond to the idea of a union as well as gets an honest count of who really wants a union. If the union gets over 50% of the people to sign cards, then they should have no problem on a secret ballot right? Wrong. Here’s where the unions use intimidation, you either sign this card in front of all of us or you’re a traitor. Sound fair? Now I’m definitely against this bill.
I have worked for a union, and even though the union already existed, I got a personal visit letting me know that if I was anti-union I would be offending some of the people very much. All I heard about from my co-worker friends was how crazy and union representatives were and that they were essentially untouchable. One of the union guys, who worked on the site, carried a gun into the workplace with him and got off scott-free. He did nothing all day, every day, and was paid for it. The old timers had tons of stories about the union, and they were all infuriating.
This is just one example, and I’m sure there are some people who are better off with a union. And I think that employers who attract their employees to unionize probably deserve the union.