As Logan mentioned in his previous post, a vote on Card Check is forthcoming in Congress. This legislation is a payback to Big Labor and will rob union workers of their right to a secret ballot. It also could result in the loss of 600,000 jobs. Newt Gingrich explains in his latest newsletter column.
After spending an astounding $61 million to elect Democrats in the 2008 elections, union bosses are getting their payback this week.
Yesterday, so-called “Card Check” legislation was introduced in both the House and the Senate.
Card Check Could Eliminate 600,000 Jobs In Its First Year
That means that an estimated 600,000 jobs could be lost due to Card Check in the first year alone — and that’s on top of the over four million jobs already lost to the flagging economy.
Card Check is a job killer. Even Obama supporter Warren Buffet opposes it, saying “I think the secret ballot is pretty important in the country. I’m against card check.” Watch him here.
But as far as Big Labor is concerned, a deal’s a deal. Their goal is to get their allies in Washington to ram Card Check through Congress this week, before anyone notices that American workers and businesses are losing fundamental rights.
Card Check strips American workers of the right to a secret ballot and gives the federal government the right to impose labor contracts on workers.
The timing of this assault on the freedom of the American workplace could not be worse. A new study shows that for every three workers coerced into joining a union under Card Check, one job will be eliminated by besieged American businesses.
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The Stakes Are High This Week
But it’s precisely this kind of pro-secret ballot, pro-freedom sentiment among the American people that makes union bosses so eager to pass Card Check.
Under Card Check, union organizers and their enforcers will be able to go into any small business, hospital or construction site and coerce workers into signing cards. If they get 50 percent plus one, the deal’s done, and the workers are forced into a union. And if management and the new union fail to reach a negotiated contract, the federal government will just impose one. Coerced unionization allows for what is effectively a new, unaccountable form of forced taxation. Workers will have a portion of their paycheck going to the union to be spent as the bosses see fit, including political donations to parties and candidates that the workers may not even support.
Talk about an “offer you can’t refuse.” There’s no vote. No secret ballot. No right to freely negotiate the contract. The workers, the workplace, and a portion of the worker’s paychecks are controlled by the union bosses.
For Americans like you and me, the stakes are high this week. Hanging in the balance are literally hundreds of thousands of jobs, not to mention fundamental freedoms like the ability of small businesses to create and sustain jobs, the freedom of American workers to have a say in how their workplace is organized, and the freedom of American workers to freely choose whether they want to give money to politicians and political parties.
American Solutions has a petition up on their web site – Freedom Not Fear. I urge you to sign it and start passing it along.
