More on Card Check Intimidation
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 by AdminWe noted yesterday the irony of union officials claiming the need for the Employee Free Choice Act based on alleged employer intimidation of employees — while a leading union is being accused of coercing its own members to keep them from joining a rival.
Well, the same story continues to play out. In the pages of the Washington Post, union organizer-turned-pseudo-scholar Kate Bronfenbrenner decries a supposed “war on organizing.” The Post, of course, fails to mention any financial or historical relationship between the author and unions (or the publisher of her study, the union-run Economic Policy Institute).
There’s more to that story, but we’re confident others are on it.
In the meantime, there are emerging details on allegations against SEIU for intimidating their own members. Ironically, this alleged intimidation comes during a process that allows each union member to vote by a mail-in private ballot — nearly identical to one card check “compromise” being floated as an ostensible way of ensuring worker rights.
It doesn’t sound very much like the mail-in ballot concept is preventing union intimidation:
Today marked the day when 10,000 workers in the Fresno area would begin receiving ballots in the mail. The election is to determine if workers want to remain members of SEIU or join NUHW.
Tags: Compromise, Intimidation, SEIU
July 27th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Card Check: Why “Mail-In Ballots” May Not Be The Best Reform | thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check says:[...] may be better than card check, but they’re not necessarily as good as the current system. Remember that there have been strong and recent allegations that leading card check proponent SEIU has [...]