Another Letter Opposes Card Check

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 by Admin

Many analysts believe Ground Zero for the fight over the Employee Free Choice Act lies in Arkansas, which has two moderate Democrats for Senators. Both have shown public skepticism about the bill’s effective elimination of secret ballots in workplace elections and the imposition of government arbitrators into the good-faith negotiating process — you know, the two main provisions of EFCA.

Perhaps one of the reasons the Arkansas senators are so wary is that their constituents don’t like EFCA. The latest evidence comes from the pages of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and a letter to the editor:

Organizing outdated

Re George West’s letter, “Unions shield workers”: My dad worked for a union-represented company many years and I suppose it worked out OK, but since we have nothing to compare as far as what would have happened otherwise, who knows?

Doesn’t West understand that unions are not vital today because we have employee/company federal laws that apply?

Unions are the primary issue that destroyed Chrysler and General Motors. Now West wants the public to support the Employee Free Choice Act. What’s free about this? It takes away an employee’s right to a secret ballot. If this passes, daily harassment and threats from the union leaders will be the result. Talk about being un-American.

DIANNE HILLESTAD

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