Union-bashing disguised as concern for workers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.kentucky.com/589/story/490760.html

Posted on Fri, Aug. 15, 2008

By Bill Londrigan

Kentucky's workers and voters should recognize that the recent rash of anti-union TV and radio ads are nothing more than propaganda intended to divert the attention of the electorate from the critical issues of the day: health care, good jobs, education, trade, retirement security, energy security and the war.

Voters should reject the cynical premise of this ad campaign along with those responsible for its dissemination.

The ads' principle claim is that the proposed Employee Free Choice Act would take away a worker's right to choose union representation by the traditional or ”secret ballot“ election procedure. Not true. Under this legislation, there still would be an option to have the National Labor Relations Board administer ”secret ballot“ elections at the workplace.

Under the current system, employers are the ones who make the decision whether to call for an NLRB election — which they often do because it gives them months to run an aggressive anti-union campaign.

The Employee Free Choice Act would put this decision in the hands of workers. If 30 percent of them choose to have an NLRB election they can; if they prefer majority sign-up, they will have that option as well.

Majority sign-up is not a new approach. For years, employers such as AT&T, Cingular Wireless, Harley-Davidson and Kaiser Permenente have allowed that majority sign-up, finding that it results in less hostility and polarization in the workplace than the failed NLRB process.

FULL story at link.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Ass-clown ads here too

in Oregon.

They take great pains to avoid telling viewers who they are, instead using actors in "work" situations being intimidated, or somebody barging past the polling-booth curtain.

I yell at them, and my gal says from the other room: "They can't hear you!"

[BlooInBloo]

2. Those kind of up-is-down-isms always make me giggle....

Like seeing commercials by Exxon talking about how committed they are to alternative energy sources.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

3. Those kind of up-is-down-isms always make me...

react like this...