dannyboy
From the promised LAND
Card check is an interesting play by the union to get its foot in the door of businesses that otherwise would be very hard to enter.
The way they get in now is by secret ballot. Every member has the right to vote by secret ballot, and the union and company is bound by the vote.
Under card check, it is an open ballot. That allows for the union to get signatures without secret ballot. In other words, they, the union, get to watch while you either sign or refuse to sign the ballot. They have the right to visit the employees at home, after hours, and repeatedly so, until they get you to sign the ballot. This system allows for the age old union tactic of intimidation of those workers that do not want union representation, or even more so, the workers that want the ability to vote by secret ballot.
This so called "employee free choice act" does not even give the employee that free choice. It is not only tilted toward the union, it gives them greater power and massive control over the whole process, and takes free choice away from those they seek to represent.
I realize that the unionization of FedEx is a hot topic here on BC. But to be short sighted and allow something like this into law just to satisfy UPS's short term goals is bad policy.
It would seem to me that the unions need to offer something that the workers want. Make it so nice and wonderful that they would line up at the hall wanting to join.
But those days are long gone. Instead of allowing free choice, they would rather be in charge at any cost, including at the expense of the "right to free choice" of the very workers they want to bring into the fold.
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The way they get in now is by secret ballot. Every member has the right to vote by secret ballot, and the union and company is bound by the vote.
Under card check, it is an open ballot. That allows for the union to get signatures without secret ballot. In other words, they, the union, get to watch while you either sign or refuse to sign the ballot. They have the right to visit the employees at home, after hours, and repeatedly so, until they get you to sign the ballot. This system allows for the age old union tactic of intimidation of those workers that do not want union representation, or even more so, the workers that want the ability to vote by secret ballot.
This so called "employee free choice act" does not even give the employee that free choice. It is not only tilted toward the union, it gives them greater power and massive control over the whole process, and takes free choice away from those they seek to represent.
I realize that the unionization of FedEx is a hot topic here on BC. But to be short sighted and allow something like this into law just to satisfy UPS's short term goals is bad policy.
It would seem to me that the unions need to offer something that the workers want. Make it so nice and wonderful that they would line up at the hall wanting to join.
But those days are long gone. Instead of allowing free choice, they would rather be in charge at any cost, including at the expense of the "right to free choice" of the very workers they want to bring into the fold.
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