Secret Ballot Safe For Now...

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nji098

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O.K., the Times spins like crazy but it looks like the cornerstone of American democracy is safe.

For the time being.

Funny how this is always presented as simply an effort "to make it easier to join unions" while abolishing the secret ballot is mentioned only in passing, if at all. Note the wording, including how those Fascist employers "...can insist on a secret-ballot election". The Fiends ! ! !

Now try to imagine some January 2001 memo on Cheneys letterhead suggesting ending secret ballot voting turning up. Think the Media might be interested ?


Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions

A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers.

The so-called card-check provision — which senators decided to scrap to help secure a filibuster-proof 60 votes — would have required employers to recognize a union as soon as a majority of workers signed cards saying they wanted a union. Currently, employers can insist on a secret-ballot election, a higher hurdle for unions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/17union.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=card check&st=cse
 
nji098 said:
O.K., the Times spins like crazy but it looks like the cornerstone of American democracy is safe.

For the time being.

Funny how this is always presented as simply an effort "to make it easier to join unions" while abolishing the secret ballot is mentioned only in passing, if at all. Note the wording, including how those Fascist employers "...can insist on a secret-ballot election". The Fiends ! ! !

Now try to imagine some January 2001 memo on Cheneys letterhead suggesting ending secret ballot voting turning up. Think the Media might be interested ?


Democrats Drop Key Part of Bill to Assist Unions

A half-dozen senators friendly to labor have decided to drop a central provision of a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers.

The so-called card-check provision — which senators decided to scrap to help secure a filibuster-proof 60 votes — would have required employers to recognize a union as soon as a majority of workers signed cards saying they wanted a union. Currently, employers can insist on a secret-ballot election, a higher hurdle for unions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/17union.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=card check&st=cse
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Well, it makes it better.
 
Fat bastards safe from the workers for now. They dab their forheads with their handkerchiefs, and celebrate by giving themselves the money from the raise they were going to give their soon to be organized workers.
 
That god damned evil secret ballot. What next? It has floored me how liberals hated this one because with secret ballot there is no way to pressure anyone.
 
Watermark said:
The right to petition is actually in the constitution. That's how important it was to our founders. And you want to strip our workers of it. Sad. People like you really should be disposed of.
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The only "stripping" at issue here is the push to strip "our workers" of the right to a secret ballot. No problem with that ?
 
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