Veterans Deserve Free Choice Too

A corporate front group that's trying to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act is now using a Memorial Day message against the bill. The anti-union group, called the Workplace Fairness Institute, put out a radio actuality implying that unions would take away rights for which veterans fought.

Try to tell that to a Teamster veteran.

John Padula was a sergeant in the U.S. Army, and his father was a soldier who fought in World War II.

Padula says if a veteran can join the army by signing a piece of paper, he should have the right to sign a card to join a union.

Watch the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HBecn20-hQ

Comments

[DaCoach]

James, just amend the Act to guarantee secret ballots in all cases. You can trade off that for a guarantee of secret ballots to disenfranchise existing unions. Put a cap on the timeliness of the elections and insure that all employees on the date the petition is filed are allowed to vote even if they leave. Put strong penalties in the Act to punish any intimidation. Require that a union rep must be in attendance at all employee/worker meetings.

This Act is too important to workers. Let's not get lost in the minutiae and lose the war. This Act will not pass until secret ballots are a part of it. Get it done.

[LeftRight]

Okay, you seem to be like a stuck record. The REASON that they are not making a secret ballot at all times (which you ignore as the point of the post, as well....) is because the EMPLOYERS are using the time between signing all the cards and the election to intimidate workers. That's why there were 27,000 complaints against the employers in the year 2006 ALONE!!!

What we are trying to do with the EFCA is to give the choice of a ballot or a card check to the EMPLOYEES who are trying to make a union!! In know, you're going to complain about UNION intimidation, but there's only been 42 complaints against unions in SIX DECADES!!!

In other words, in the year 2006 there was a complaint against the employer every 20 minutes, but in the sixty years since records have been kept it's around a year and a half between union complaints!!

[CitizenT]

Let's not forget that EFCA still allows for secret ballots. It just allows the workers to decide the method instead of the employer.

[DaCoach]

You fail to acknowledge that the Act as presented WILL NOT pass. The only possible choice to gain enough votes to win is mandating secret ballots. Adequate safeguards can be inserted into the legislation to sufficiently safeguard employer intimidation. The reality is either add the mandate of a secret ballot or fail to pass the legislation.