What A World Without Secret Labor Balloting Would Look Like

  •  October 22, 2008

This ad showing Union Boss Bill (played by AFL-CIO boss Bill Londrigan of Kentucky) depicting life would be like if the misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” (which would remove secret balloting from the labor organization process) passes.


Notice the bulletin board in the union headquarters showing workers who are “for” and “against” organizing. The “for” list is just names. The “against” list is…pictures.
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Creepy, no? Now imagine that Union Boss Bill was in your neighborhood trying to organize your workplace, and you were the only thing standing between him and a unionized labor force.
That wouldn’t be a good position to be in.

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  • http://Array Bruce

    exactly why I’m glad I’m no longer a union member. the secret ballot is what freedom is based on. Without it we are no longer a free people.

  • http://www.uncensoredfreespeech.com/ mallard

    Combine the worst of lazy and ignorant with a cocky, arrogant sense of entitlement and you have your average North American Union Member. Its habitats include sitting on the pot smoking a cigarette while reading the sports section of the paper (and forgetting to flush afterwards), cutting in line in a cafeteria and wandering amongst picket lines. Its mating call is a loud, boisterous jeer at non-union professionals and exhibits such behavioral gestures as crotch grabbing and nose picking.

  • Hungry Bear

    Now imagine that a large portion of your union dues is used to fund political campaigns that you are opposed to.

    Oh wait, my union already does that to me.

  • ews48

    By supporting Obama because he supports this bill, unions are supporting unions, not their members.

  • Scott

    I’m trying to look at this objectively. Perhaps there is another reason for supporting this, other than to scratch the unions backs in return for more contributions. I think that when votes are held privately, the votes can be manipulated in the favor of the person overseeing the process. When votes are made public, every vote is accounted for and thus reduces potential for fraud. This makes me unsure of exactly how I believe this process should be done. If votes are anonymous, there could be rampant fraud. If votes are public, a person can be intimidated to vote a certain way. The government has no right to intrude in these matters. This should be left to each individual company to decide how they will conduct business.

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    Whatever happened to Jimmy Hoffa?

  • Old Retired Petty Officer

    Were I in a union, the leadership of said union would have a clear understanding of such things. I would consider it a threat to the safety of myself and my family. Threats like that must be treated as hostile. I hope everyone gets the picture.
    At least I live in a right to work state and can make my own choices. I was in a union at an aircraft manufacturer for three of six years. It took awhile but I finally saw through the bullshit and quit. When I went back to the aircraft industry this year, I did not join the union. And I will never do so.
    Just so everyone is aware, the mane I use is not just a screen name. It is a fact. AMH1(AW) United States Navy, Retired. Period of Service: 1973-1993. Lifetime union hacks are not or will they ever be as good as me.

  • Jerry

    Incredible, how STUPID these Unions figure their members can be.

  • Scott

    Sir, did you read what I wrote? You said the same thing as I did. I was saying that since both systems have their flaws the government should not force companies into deciding how they want to handle such a vote. This is a discussion about “Employee Free Choice Act”.

    By the way, not every union uses intimidation tactics to get their way. The smart ones have binding contracts with businesses to do certain work. This contract guarantees that these guys will be called to do this work. If the business violates the contract by hiring other workers to do a job, then the contract has been violated and the union has a right to mitigate the damages. It’s not entirely unreasonable for someone to be upset that the terms of their contract were violated, but violence is not the answer.

  • Jeffersonite

    Damn, Scott. You must be young. I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but our political voting process is by secret ballot. It may well, and probably does, allow for fraud. n the other hand, there is little to no chance for intimidation. I can go into and come out of the voting booth saying to whomever that I am voting one way, vote the opposite way, and nobody knows it but me. I don’t get beat up or threatened. If that process is open and not private, I can be coerced to vote how the thug threatening the safety of my family wants me to. I think we can ferret out fraud much easier than we can prevent union thug or political party coercion.

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