We need you Al. I hope you will prepare one of the most most powerful presentation for the Employee Free choice Act. Expose the lies perpetrated by big business and their concern over the sacred so called "secret ballot". It soen't take a towering intellect to see through those who represent the corporate domination system biggest lie with regard to their concern for their employees. They have none. What they are really concerned about is that is EFCA passed they won't be able to coerce their workers to become a captive audience for the anti-union consultants they hire to impose their propaganda. If EFCA passes, the corporate state will not be not be in a position to intimidate their workers by threatening to shutter the work place, by predicting clamaties like a certain percentage of the work force will lose thier jobs. Corporate America will not be able to coerce employees into one-on-one meetings with their supervisors who make threats, excuse me "predictions" that their jobs are on the line if they vote a union in. The corposrate state will not be able to unilaterally dictate the terms and conditions of the work place. They will not be able to unilaterally and arbitrarilly

We need you Al. I hope you will prepare one of the most most powerful presentation for the Employee Free choice Act. Expose the lies perpetrated by big business and their concern over the sacred so called "secret ballot". It doesn't take a towering intellect to see through those who represent the corporate domination system,what their biggest lies are with regard to their concern for their employees. Their real strategy is to dominate and control their workers as much as possible. What they are really concerned about is that if EFCA is passed, employers won't be able to coerce their workers to become a captive audience for the corporate anti-union consultants they hire to impose their propaganda. If EFCA passes, the corporate state will not be
in a position to intimidate their workers by threatening to shutter the work place, by predicting clamaties like a certain percentage of the work force will lose thier jobs. Corporate America will not be able to coerce employees into one-on-one meetings with their supervisors who make threats, excuse me "predictions" that their jobs are on the line if they vote a union in. What really concerns the corporate state is that they will not be able to unilaterally dictate the terms and conditions of the work place. They will not be able to unilaterally and arbitrarilly dictate
such vital issues to the employee as salary, sick leave, paid vacation, health care, the work schedule etc...If EFCA is passed,what concerns employers is that they won't get just a "slap on the wrist" for discharging employees who exercise their constitution right to campaign for a union.What concerns employers is that is EFCA is passed, they won't be able to bargain in bad faith:they won't be able to stall the negotiating process of a first contract in order to derail a union.

A text without context is a pretext. Within the Employer-employee relationship context, secret ballot elections are inherently anti-democratic and therefore irrelavant:they ratify the coercive and threatening atmosphere which precedes the "secret ballot" election.
The relationship between employer and employee is innately coercive given the dependency that defines the relationship. The employer, who is clearly in the superior economic position,becomes both the judge and the advocate during their compulsory anti-union meetings. Within the aforementioned context, in no way are union secret ballot elections when imposed by an employer,comparable to political elections.
You do not need a secret ballot election to join the Republican party, the chamber of commerce,the ACLU, or the United Italian American Foundation. You should not have to have a secred ballot election to join a union.
Usually one will not lose their jobs if they vote for any particular candidate. Yet Wal-mart has already held captive audience meetings threatening the jobs of their employees if they voted for Obama who will defintely sign EFCA into law.
EFCA must become the law of the land now with absolutely no compromises in order the fulfil both the letter and the spirit of National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
We Must march on Washington when this bill is being debated on the senate floor!!!It could really make the difference once mass media prime time realizes that
EFCA is the most important piece of legislation since the Civil Rights acts of the 1960. This opportunity must not fail!!!

Senator ... How does that sound?

Congrats to YOU and YOUR Family. I look forward to your HUMAN representation in the Senate.

I'd like to tell you what I got today for 11 YEARS SERVICE from my BIG CORPORATE Employer "Verizon Business" (previously known as MCI & WORLDCOM).

Want to quess?

I got a "one hour off" coupon to use with my Supervisor's approval- expires in 30 days. Last year I suggested 1 hour per year of Service to Supervisors and Managers. Of course, no response.

11 YEARS - (thanks Bernie Ebbers for taking my 1275 shares), now called Verizon Business. I've been in the same building with the same employee # for 11 years and get 1 hour off with pay.

UNIONS are not allowed to be discussed. HELP US out here, please and thank you!

Employee Free Choice Act is a MUST ... we are dying out here as you know.

I think the last great thing GOV did for the little guys in the Business World was the FMLA-1993.

Mick Cerra writes: "Within the Employer-employee relationship context, secret ballot elections are inherently anti-democratic". What is so unique about the employer-employee relationship, so as to cast off the American right to privacy. It's a bedrock right for electing those to public office.

Under EFCA, fears of employer indtimidation will be exchanged for Union intimidation.

Example: The following is verbatim from the Overnite-Teamsters settlement. (Look it up) Ask yourself why the Teamsters had to promise:

“WE WILL NOT brandish or carry any weapon of any kind, including, but not limited to, guns, knives, slingshots, rocks, ball bearings, liquid-filled balloons or other projectiles, sledge hammers, bricks, sticks, or two by fours . . ..

“WE WILL NOT use or threaten to use a weapon of any kind, including but not limited to guns, knives, slingshots, rocks, ball bearings, liquid-filled balloons or other projectiles, picket signs, sticks, sledge hammers, bricks, hot coffee, bottles, two by fours, lit cigarettes, eggs, or bags or balloons filled with excrement . . ..

WE WILL NOT damage, threaten to damage or attempt to damage any vehicle or equipment owned or operated by Overnite, its employees or security guards, by any means or manner, including but not limited by slingshots, rocks, ball bearings, liquid-filled balloons or other projectiles, knives, picket signs, sticks, sledge hammers, bricks, bottles, two by fours, eggs, or paint, or by tearing off mirrors, windshield wipers or antennas, or breaking windows.

WE WILL NOT disable or attempt to disable vehicles owned or operated by Ovemite, by any means or manner, including but not limited to disconnecting or otherwise severing air brake lines, padlocking doors, spraying substances in or otherwise jamming locks, stealing keys, puncturing radiators, cutting hoses or door cables, flattening tires or throwing, placing or otherwise spreading any nails, screws, star nails, jack rocks or similar devices capable of puncturing tires on any road surface.

WE WILL NOT endanger or impede the progress of or harass any non-striking employee or any employee of a neutral person doing business with Ovemite, while he or she is operating a company vehicle or his or her own personal vehicle, by forcing or attempting to force him or her off the road, blocking, delaying or limiting his or her access to or passage on any road, swerving toward, driving recklessly near, tailgating or braking abruptly in front of him or her, impeding his or her progress by speeding up and slowing down, driving at speeds below the legal minimums while in front of him or her.

WE WILL NOT endanger or impede the progress of or harass any non-striking employee or any employee of a neutral person doing business with Ovemite, while he or she is operating a company vehicle or his or her own personal vehicle, by jumping on vehicles, by attempting to open the doors of vehicles, by throwing paint on windshields, by using mirrors, laser pointers, spot lights or flash photography in the eyes of drivers, or by obstructing the view of drivers by holding picket signs over the windshields of vehicles.

WE WILL NOT engage in mass picketing or otherwise impede the ingress or egress of Ovemite employees or employees of any other employer to or from any Overnite service center or any facility of any neutral person doing business with Overnite or patrol or walk across the entrance of any Ovemite service center or a facility of any neutral person doing business with Overnite in such a manner as to impede or delay the ingress or egress of any individua1.

WE WILL NOT batter, assault, spit on, blow whistles loudly near a person’s ear, throw any liquid or solid object at, or attempt to assault any non-striking employee of Overnite or any member of his or her family or any employee of a neutral employee doing business with Overnite, or any security guard or supervisor or manager of a neutral employee doing business with Overnite in the presence of employees.

WE WILL NOT threaten to kill or inflict bodily harm, make throat slashing motions, make gun pointing motions, challenge or threaten to fight or assault employees, threaten to sexually assault non-striking employees or their family members, threaten to follow non-striking employees to their homes, use racial epithets or obscene gestures at non-striking employees or otherwise threaten unspecified reprisals on any non-striking employee of Overnite or any member of his or her family or any employee of a neutral employee doing business with Overnite, or on any security guard, supervisor or manager of Ovemite or neutral employers doing business with Ovemite in the presence of employees.

WE WILL NOT videotape or photograph any non-striking employees of Ovemite, or vehicles of Ovemite or of its nonstriking employees while engaging in coercive activity observed by or known by those being videotaped or photographed or threaten to release the photographs, names, addresses or phone numbers of non-striking employees in order to intimidate the non-striking employees.

WE WILL NOT prevent any non-striking employee from accessing an Ovemite vehicle or a personal vehicle or block Ovemite vehicles or the personal vehicles of non-striking Ovemite employees.

WE WILL NOT threaten to fine or cause the discharge of non-member employees because they cross a picket line or refuse to go on strike.

WE WILL NOT threaten to cause any employee’s discharge if they do not engage in a strike or picketing of Ovemite or of any neutral person doing business with Ovemite.

WE WILL NOT attempt to harass and intimidate employees or security guards on Ovemite property by using mirrors to reflect sunlight into the eyes of Ovemite drivers or use mirrors or laser pointers to shine light into the eyes or video cameras of security guards.

WE WILL NOT remove the personal property of non-striking employees from their personal vehicles.”

I hope this doesn't give anyone new organizing tactics.

Mr. Nofan Franken proclaims that under EFCA in it's pristine form, Union imtimidation will be replaced by employer intimidation. Mr. Nofan, you just indicted your own position. You least of all admitted that employer intimidation exists. Secondly you cited how the law works when unions employ intimidation. There's are numerous laws that protect the employee from union intimidation. Union intimidation differs from Employer intimidation in both degree and kind. Almost always the union will protect and employees job while the employer has not only more power to intimidate the employee with threats of discipline, dismissal, and deportation, but actaully rampantly exercises such unlawful methods with virtual impunity. The Employee Free choice Act will put a halt to emploer abuse.

Hi,
Thank you! I would now go on this blog every day!

Thanks much for that good piece of text.