House votes to make union intimidation easier

Having claimed to have won the November election on the idea that Americans were, by and large, surrender monkeys like the Deafeatocrats, they figured that best way to punish George Bush was to lose a war and destroy American credibility around the world. Now, finding it is easier to talk about surrendering American interests in the Middle East than actually doing it, DemoRATS are turning to a less arduous task; selling out the American worker.

In a move that many believe is payback for union support in November, the House yesterday voted in favor of a measure to make it easier for workers to join unions. Easier to join? When I was a college lad, I HAD to join. It doesn’t get much easier than that. DemoRATS in the House voted 241-185 for the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow workers to unionize by simply signing a card or petition stating their interest in joining a union, as opposed to the long-standing practice of secret-ballot elections.

Don’t you just love the names that they give these bills? Employee Free Choice Act, sounds benign enough, but it’s only free until you happen to cross the union. When I was a member or the Teamster’s Union, there was only one union that was bigger and more ruthless, that was the old Soviet Union. Once when a worker failed to honor a union picket line, the worker’s car was destroyed and a note left that he was lucky it wasn’t him. There was no “Free Choice”. It was the union way or the highway – if you were lucky.

Now, DemoRATS want to make it “easier for workers to join unions”. What that really means is they want to make it easier for union thugs to force workers to join the union. The way this would work is rather than a secret ballot, three union thugs would approach a worker in the company parking lot and ask him to sign the union petition. “Gee, I dunno. Unions didn’t do much for American rail or sea travel; the big three auto makers are about bust; airlines are going bust or ‘re-organizing’ more frequently than someone announces for president; government workers are sort of the last bastion of union growth and who wants to be compared with them? Besides, I’m doing OK with the boss. Thanks, but not right now.” When the worker gets off at the end of his shift, he finds a battered hunk of steel were his car was parked.

Supporters of this practice say it is more fair than holding a secret-ballot election because, “it's a simpler, more-direct approach for workers to decide if they want to unionize.” Bullcrap, it’s easier for the union to intimidate workers. Why not just get everyone in a hall and hold a voice vote. That’s simple. Louie the union thug can get up on stage and say, “Looky here yous guys. Hows many wants to have da union benefits which includes, but ain't no way limited to, not having your friggin legs broke if yous votes for us. Alls in favor say aye.” As the silence fills the air, a cough is heard over the chirping birds outside. Then Louie says “Da ayes has it. Yous gotta problem wit dat?” That’s pretty simple and direct.