How the Dems and their Union Friends Will Screw You in an Obama Administration

What we have to look forward to under an Obama administration with a filibuster proof democratic Congress.

First is the passing of the Employee Free Choice Act. This bill which can be found here:

This language is significant:

(a) In General- Section 9(c) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 159(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, whenever a petition shall have been filed by an employee or group of employees or any individual or labor organization acting in their behalf alleging that a majority of employees in a unit appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining wish to be represented by an individual or labor organization for such purposes, the Board shall investigate the petition. If the Board finds that a majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for bargaining has signed valid authorizations designating the individual or labor organization specified in the petition as their bargaining representative and that no other individual or labor organization is currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit, the Board shall not direct an election but shall certify the individual or labor organization as the representative described in subsection (a).

What this means is that the US Labor laws will be changed such that Unions will be allowed to claim themselves as the recognized bargaining agent of the employees based solely by a showing of signed union cards. The law up to now has been unchanged since the NLRA was enacted in the New Deal that the employees are entitled to vote by secret ballot as to whether they want the union to be their bargaining agent. (Even George McGovern opposes this law if you believe that). What this means is that the unions will be able to coerce people into signing the cards. Don’t believe in union coercion? What kind of dope are you taking? The Unions are more interested in their own self interest rather than that of its bargaining unit. By increasing labor costs what will company’s do? Move to China of course or close down. Not a good sign. And what’s even scarier … is that with a Democratic super majority, the Dems are looking to repeal this provision of the Taft/Hartley Act (what is known as section 14:

29 U.S.C. § 164 b) Agreements requiring union membership in violation of State law: “Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any State or Territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by State or Territorial law.”

What is section 14? It is the federal law that allows states to choose whether they want to be right to work states. What that means is that in a right to work state, one has a protected right to be employed without having to be part of a labor union. Twenty-two states have right-to-work laws. Florida is an at-will state. If this section of the Taft Hartley Act is repealed, then Union membership may be mandatory if you want a certain job.

This is big labor’s dream come true. The White House, The House and The Senate in their pocket.

You have been warned!

Posted by Cigar Mike at October 23, 2008 06:06 PM