Fight corruption. Support 'card check' and Employee Free Choice

The greedy don't want it to be this easy to unionize.

The enormity of the campaign against the Employee Free Choice act is no surprise considering that it’s funded by big business and the motivations against it is nothing other than plain, unadulterated, GREED.

With that kind of money you can invent all sorts of lies and pay to have the public hear them repeated over and over and over again. That’s precisely what they’re doing.

The biggest like, of course, is that the Act gets rid of the secret ballot. I won’t spend my ink debunking that particular lie because there are already plenty of credible people doing that in a very clear and concise manner, including a guy I know, Ron Moore, who was personally fired for trying to start a union. Twice.

I want to pick on a tidbit that hasn’t been picked up on elsewhere but itches me nonetheless. I’m referring to the argument that says, if the Employee Free Choice Act passes, companies will just start outsourcing jobs.

Isn’t that a lot like walking down a dark alley at night, hearing a voice whisper, “your money or your life”, and feeling the barrel of a pistol pressed into your ribs?”

The Washington Post quotes the Chamber of Commerce President: “Go up and tell them what will happen [if the bill passes], that no one is going to add a single job in the United States," Chamber President Thomas J. Donohue said. "Will I put a job here where it'll get unionized in an illegal way? No, I'll put it somewhere else.”

Isn’t that a lot like walking down a dark alley at night, hearing a voice whisper, “your money or your life”, and feeling the barrel of a pistol pressed into your ribs? The argument boils down to “don’t stop greedy corporations from undertaking one crooked behavior because they’ll just take on a different crooked behavior”. It’s extortion. Blackmail. They’re trying to blackmail us into not allowing unions?

Give me a break! All the money in the world and all their marketing effort entails is lies, more lies and blackmail. They’re not even trying to provide a rational argument to persuade the public that it should be harder, rather than easier, to form a union. I wonder why.

Oh, and by the way, the American public is free to choose to spend their money with companies that keep jobs in America and support American workers. When the pendulum swings the other way – and it’s on its way even now – “Made in the USA” and “Union Made” be popular selling features. I guarantee it.