An easier solution that will fall into the “that which is not seen” category, will be people who decide to stick to businesses that don’t require any employees at all.

If you don’t mind my interjecting. the way an organizing campaign works at the nuts and bolts level is that the workers are asked/cajoled/persuaded/threatened/whathaveyou to sign Pledge Cards that express an interest in seeking a collective bargaining agreement,(contract). Usually. this is done at the instigation of the Union which wishes to “represent”,(I use the term VERY loosely),those workers in performing this bargaining.

If enough Pledge Cards are signed and validated by the National Labor Relations Board, it then calls for a secret ballot election.
(It is a violation of the law to fire or otherwise harrass an employee who signs such a Pledge Card…although it happens, law enforcement in the Labor world is as disinterested, corrupt and clueless as it is on Wall Street).

But if Managment is on the up and up, then the NLRB sets the election day

Basically, the Union gets it’s innings to make it’s pitch to the workers, and Management gets it’s innings to convince the workers why they should keep the Union out,(but not always…and this is the sure-as-shootin’ sign that the workers are going to get reamed because the Union and the Company are in bed together).

Come election day, the votes are tallied and the union is either defeated or certified as the representative for the workers.

Then begin contract negotiations…and the strikes and the lock-outs, and the negotiation over what and who constitutes the bargaining unit, and more crap than any three fools could swing a stick at.

The Card-Check Act basically wants to do away with the NLRB Secret Ballot Election and accept the Pledge Cards AS the election.

The only way to accept Card-Check into law is to make the entire nation Right-to-Work, (which bans the “closed shop”, (i.e. forced unionization in order to be employed at a workplace).

Union bosses HATE and DETEST Right to Work, since it makes Union bosses actually DO what they promise to do, or watch the workforce tell them to go and pound sand without losing their jobs.
(In fact, in a R2W state, you save yourself your Union dues by deep-sixing the goons).

If I’m wrong about how card-check affects voting–but everyone I’ve read left and right thinks I’m not–then I’ll look again (not that my opinion means a damn thing in the grand scheme of things).

“My credibility has nothing to do with my membership or lack thereof in a union.” Just bringing a little bit of truth to the comment thread.”

It has quite a lot to do with it from where i sit, chum. I’ve been rank and file with SIU for over twenty years, and did my bit in two organizing campaigns,(one succesful and one not), so I’ve been “digested” through the system.

The practice is so far removed from the theory that it’s a sick joke to hear these thieves,(and as I linked you to, I mean that literally),even TRY to tell me that they’re “on my side”.

The only reason that they are on my side would be that it makes it easier for them to put their hands in my wallet.

The proof of te pudding is in Article 20 of the AFL-CIO merger agreement,(known as the “No Raiding Clause”) which basically says that once you vote in one union, a bargaining unit cannot vote in another union without first decertifying union representation altogether.

Unions want a monopoly on the workers that they capture…and that SHOULD, to any rational person, be a red flag.

“Just bringing a little bit of truth to the comment thread.”

You’re rather a peculiar one, ain’t you?
You don’t claim to be in an outfit, but you parrot the labor bosses’ propaganda.
You deny being Gay, but what comes out of your soup-cooler is what the Gay Lobby puts inside of it.

And without batting an eye, you assert that you’re a “truth-bringer”.

Then why are you hauling that manure-spreader behind you?

Here’s the list:
The following 22 states are right-to-work states:

* Alabama
* Arizona — (established by state’s Constitution, not by statute)
* Arkansas — (established by state’s Constitution, not by statute)
* Florida — (established by state’s Constitution, not by statute)
* Georgia
* Idaho
* Iowa
* Kansas
* Louisiana
* Mississippi
* Nebraska
* Nevada
* North Carolina
* North Dakota
* Oklahoma — (established by state’s constitution, not by statute)
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Tennessee
* Texas
* Utah
* Virginia
* Wyoming

There’s also a map of those states on this Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law

If you take a look at the states on that map, notice the color. Ironic, huh?

Peace through a free vote NOT intimidation friend.

My credibility has nothing to do with my membership or lack thereof in a union. Just bringing a little bit of truth to the comment thread.

Giving employers the right to reject a legally formed union is wrong, and that is all that EFCA will change.

Peace.

DS

We met last night (Saturday night)at the blogger’s bash @ the Wyncoop. I guess I assumed that your e-mail contact info would be readily available on the PJM site, but I do not see it. If I’ve missed it, my apologies.

If you would, when you get a moment, please drop me a line to let me know how to reach you privately.

Warm Regards,

Dan Murphy
AuditCongress.com