Thursday, March 12, 2009
Congress / Kotz / Politics Lamar Alexander Joins the Anti-Union Bandwagon
Posted by Pete Kotz on Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:03 AM
It's the kind of rhetoric that plays well with Chamber of Commerce types, and should land him some fat campaign checks. The only problem is it just isn't true.
The act simply allows workers considering unionization to choose whether they'll vote by secret ballot or by signing cards. Under present rules, employers get to make this call.
What's radical is that everyone expects the change will lead to more successful unions drives. And that's freaking Alexander's patrons out. So the senator, a man not normally prone to speaking in standard Republican lunacy, has adopted the party's disingenuous sound-bites.
"It ought to be called the Employee No Choice Act because it takes away the secret ballot," he tells the Chattanooga Time Free Press. No, senator, it simply takes away the right of employers to force a secret ballot upon their workers.
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Pete Kotz, the record indicates that you are the one spreading misinformation, not Sen. Alexander.
Under EFCA, if workers want a vote over unionization, and union organizers don't, there is no practicable way the workers can force the union organizers to allow a vote.
Therefore, practically speaking, EFCA gives workers no leverage whatsoever over whether there is a vote or not. The only way you can say it does is if you call union organizers who don't even work for the company "workers." That's a nice trick.
You are either simply mouthing Big Labor propaganda about a bill you don't understand, or deliberately lying. I don't know which, but your post on Sen. Alexander is nonsense.
Stan Greer
National Right to Work Committee
National Inst. for Labor Relations Research
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