We must expose labor unions trickery

The wheels and gears of the great union labor machine are moving right now as you read this column; moving toward injustice in the work place. We, that means you and me and every one you know that values America’s freedoms, have got to contact your elected representative to Congress and tell them NOT to vote in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA as the unions call it.

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Why, you ask.  Because that union officials’ piece of legislation is falsely named and is put forth to trick not only the public but the union members as well, into believing it represents a freedom of choice for the members.  WRONG!  It actually takes away the members’ choice of voting in secret, away from the peering eyes of anybody else.   The type of voting we have all become accustomed to is called the “secret ballot” form of voting, where we go inside a curtained booth and we are closed off from anyone else trying to see how we have voted.    The type of voting the union officials want their members to follow when voting whether to unionize and if needed later to ratify, is the out-in-the-open, ‘check off on a card’ either next to the word “YES” or “NO” and hand it to a union official or his “official enforcer or helper”.  No secret vote, everything is out in the open where everyone can immediately see how you have voted.   The unions’ leaderships say with a straight face that management can’t bully or try to influence your vote when it is done on a card furnished by the union and handled by the union. They don’t say what they or the enforcers will be doing while you are making your check mark out in the open to make your “unfree” choice.   This sort of tactic is about as un-American as tearing down our national stars and stripes flag and burning it.  It’s as free choice as having the labor officials tell you who to vote for in the general election, “or else.”  Anyone who is gullible enough to believe the union bosses statements about open and not secret voting being “free choice” is either an accomplice or under duress.   You’ll notice that these union bosses aren’t asking you the employee to vote for this change, as by current law they would have to do it by secret ballot.  No, they are asking the majority members of Congress, the ones that they have given so heavily of your dues money in order to win their elections, to change the law from secret voting, to open, for all eyes to see, voting.   This sleazy piece of legislation is entitled House Resolution 300, Employee Free Choice Act, and it would erase fair and just legally adopted laws that the very hard pressed and oppressed workers got from their government about 70 years ago in the dark days of the 1930s.    Those new labor laws at that time were like a breath of fresh air settling down over laborers that had been mistreated then by greedy company owners and were a welcome relief to American families.    As a teenager growing up in the coal-mining state of Pennsylvania, I vividly recall some of the brutal conditions that were prevalent at the time.  But I also recall how the new laws, the same laws that have helped our country’s workers all these years.  Now the union bosses want those long needed and long tested for fairness laws changed so they can manipulate workplace voting.   Don’t trade a smoothly working, very American-like, fair-minded law for one that takes away by intimidation and coercion.  We have all got to speak up against this dishonest tactic that could result in union member potential enslavement for many decades.  Tell your Congressman to vote "NO" on EFCA/HR 300.   Workers all over the world will thank you for your continuing leadership for fair employment laws.