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No Less Than The 'Secret Ballot Election' Is At Stake

Posted by: Kevin D. Korenthal | 10/06/2008 11:13 AM

Though talked about a great deal among those in the political class, I get the strong feeling that most Americans are not aware of the fact that Barack Obama was a 2007 co-signer on a bill that removes the secret ballot election from the unionization process. Democrats want to remove secret ballots and Barack Obama, if he is elected President would sign that bill. Let that sink in.

Here is a great piece of commentary that describes the bill in question, the "Employee Free Choice Act" and the broader pro-union bias that an Obama Administration will have.

What's so bad about the "Employee Free Choice Act"? The name is positively Orwellian: instead of preserving workers' ability to make the decision to unionize by secret ballot, it does just the opposite. The bill makes it much easier to create a union at a business -- the union bosses can publicly pressure a majority of workers to sign union authorization cards (thus, the name "card check"). There is no secret ballot -- workers sign the cards in front of other employees and union leaders, and union officials keep the signed cards until they obtain the required number. Under the watchful eyes (and arm twisting) of union organizers, workers will be intimidated into signing.
If you ever needed a reason to  throw your back into an election, the direction that Barack Obama will take this country is that reason. Should he be elected, Obama will insure that non-union companies go out of business and are replaced by suedo-companies which are nothing more than union hiring halls. America, already unable to compete in the Global Markets will fall further behind as a result of the millions of companies that will continue to go offshore to avoid the increasingly anti-business climate here in America.

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Too Little Too Late said:

That is really going to suck when President Obama does that. Now, all of the illegals will join unions (and become citizens no matter who's elected.)

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