Letter: Quit Calling EFCA Opponents Names
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 by AdminFollowers of this blog will most likely have read enough stories about the Employee Free Choice Act to know that its advocates rely heavily on stereotypes of big corporate titans — not exactly the image of Associated Builders and Contractors members, many of whom are small businesspeople and all of whom are hardworking entrepreneurs.
So we thought we should share this letter running in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from one person fed up with the stereotypes:
The secretary-treasurer of the Georgia AFL-CIO describes opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act with the obligatory evil grouping of “corporate front groups, billionaire investors and many corporate CEOs” (“Chamber no friend of Free Choice Act,” Letters, March 16). Should we then call the proponents of EFCA “thugs, criminals and Jimmy-Hoffa-types” since in the history of labor unions there have been multiple examples of all three?
When the letter writer shows an interest in ending the childish name-calling and demonstrates a willingness to start an actual dialogue, perhaps he can answer why membership in labor unions has been in a steady decline since the 1960s, why unions are so determined to destroy the secret ballot in company elections and why union members get zero say in how their collected dues are spent. Facts are stubborn things.
ALLAN DeNIRO
Roswell
