Labor Officials Denounce Union Attack Ads

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=88784

Web Editor: Scott Sassone, Reporter
Created: 6/5/2008 6:23:27 PM
Updated: 6/6/2008 3:20:30 PM

(NEWS CENTER) -- An organization called The Center For Union Facts has launched a nationwide television ad campaign attacking labor unions and supporting workers rights. Those ads recently ran on stations here in Maine, including WCSH 6 and WLBZ 2.

The ads depict workers talking about how unions take away their rights and bully people into joining unions.

J. Justin Wilson spoke to NEWS CENTER from his Washington D.C. office on Thursday.

"We think people should be able to have a free and clear choice as to whether to join a union," Wilson told NEWS CENTER. "If they want to quit the union they should be able to do that."

The center's Managing Director, Wilson says the campaign is aimed at the "Employee Free Choice Act." Wilson says if Congress enacts the bill, it will strip workers of their right to a private vote when forming a union.

"In organizing elections, people go and have a vote, just like election day in Maine," Wilson explained. "They want to switch to a system where a union organizer approaches you at your house and say sign this contract and they don't even show you the fine print."


FULL story at link.

[TeamsterDem]

1. Berman and the National Right to Work Foundation can kiss my ass. n/t

[pnorman]

2. Here's the dope on that Rick Berman CREEP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Berman

http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/the-anti-union-network/center-for-union-facts/bermans-front-groups.html

http://www.prwatch.org/node/4458

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Union_Facts

The list is endless, but this should be enough for those unacquainted with that corporate-shill.

pnorman

[TeamsterDem]

3. Did you see Berman on 60 Minutes? What a lying piece of shit. n/t

[pnorman]

4. I've been TV-free for at least a decade.

But 60 Minutes was one of the few programs I used to watch religiously. Thanks for the tip. Here's what Google yielded: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/05/60minutes/main2653020.shtml?source=search_story

pnorman

[TeamsterDem]

5. I saw something else on Berman but I don't remember what it was

But it was awesome. It showed some reporter presenting him with a bunch of facts about unions, then showed him stammering and sputtering trying to respond. For the life of me I can't recall what it was but if I do I'll post it in this thread so you can check it out.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

6. Sen. Kennedy Ripping Up Union Facts Ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcJ5lKq3GY0&feature=related

:patriot: Thank You, Senator.