http://talkradionews.com/2009/02/its-a-no-for-the-employee-free-choice-act/ The Talk Radio News Service is the only information news service dedicated to serving the talk radio community. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:46:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://talkradionews.com/2009/02/its-a-no-for-the-employee-free-choice-act/comment-page-1/#comment-42459 Hilary Smith Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:32:37 +0000 http://talkradionews.com/?p=23261#comment-42459 Workers are under much greater risk of intimidation from employers versus unions simply because to organize a union is a direct challenge to the absolute authority of an employer. Workers typically share the same interests. Of course it's possible that unions will intimidate anti-union workers, but I don't think you can argue that it's unions, not employers, who will do the bulk of the harassing during an organization drive. The real question is weather it's harder to stand up to a union effort or to your employer? Card check was the organizing method used during the first labor movements and unions became weakened when that ability to organize quickly and conspicuously was taken away. Also, the Employee Free Choice Act doesn't take away the secret ballot. That claim is false. The Employee Free Choice Act will protect working-class people by making it easier to form a union (which means the ability for workers to bargain for better wages, job security, healthcare, retirement). That's the reason business people hate it. When was the last time the business community went out of it's way to stick up for the rights of workers? Good thing most of us have become wise to their shtick. Unions are the only reason we ever had a middle class. Every CEO enjoys the safety of a contract and so should every janitor. No person's access to resources should be precarious and nobody should be disposable. Workers are under much greater risk of intimidation from employers versus unions simply because to organize a union is a direct challenge to the absolute authority of an employer. Workers typically share the same interests. Of course it’s possible that unions will
intimidate anti-union workers, but I don’t think you can argue that it’s unions, not employers, who will do the bulk of the harassing during an organization drive. The real question is weather it’s harder to stand up to a union effort or to your employer? Card check was the organizing method used during the first labor movements and unions became weakened when that ability to organize quickly and conspicuously was taken away. Also, the Employee Free Choice Act doesn’t take away the secret ballot. That claim is false. The
Employee Free Choice Act will protect working-class people by making it easier to form a union (which means the ability for workers to bargain for better wages, job security, healthcare, retirement). That’s the reason business people hate it. When was the last time
the business community went out of it’s way to stick up for the rights of workers? Good thing most of us have become wise to their shtick. Unions are the only reason we ever had a middle class. Every CEO enjoys the safety of a contract and so should every janitor. No
person’s access to resources should be precarious and nobody should be disposable.

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