Round Two

As you probably already know, the move to keep the Immigration Surrender Amnesty Bill off the floor of the Senate failed yesterday.

Round two is today. More phone calls needed (contact info here).

We did win one yesterday, though just barely.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have allowed labor organizations to unionize workplaces without secret ballot elections. Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to force consideration of the Employee Free Choice Act, ending labor’s chance to win its top legislative priority from Congress.

The final vote was 51-48.

I started posting about the ineptly titled “Employee Free Choice Act” (furthermore to be known around these parts as the “Forced Unionization Bill”) back in January. Here is the basics of this bill: 

If this bill were to pass “Card Check” type votes for union memberships would be national law. There would be no more anonymous voting for a shop to become a union shop. If a union can lie their way to be able to get 50% + 1 employee to sign a card, the business is now a union shop.

A federal moderator would force the business to take what the union is offering. There are strict and quite short times allowed for negotiations between the business and the union in the bill. All the union reps have to do is stand their ground and tell the feds that the business is being uncooperative, and the business gets stepped on by the feds.

If a business so much as holds a meeting asking the non-union supporting employees to not sign a card, they can be federally fined for intimidation. There are no fines allowed for union reps intimidating people to sign the card. They can even intimidate employees in the privacy of the employee’s home, something  businesses have never been allowed to do. Also, any pro-union employee who gets fired before the business goes union, whether it be for insubordination or the failing of a drug test, is allowed to bring the feds in to put the business under a microscope for intimidation. Hell, just making the guy take a drug test, even if he was randomly chosen by an outside testing agency (as is done at my place of employ) can be grounds for filing an anti-union organizing suit which will bring the feds in.

But the worst part of this bill is that is a lie. Even just the title is a lie.

Any bill called “The Employee Free Choice Act” that was honestly and actually pro-free choice for all employees would create a nation-wide right-to-work.

So while you’re calling about the Immigration Surrender Amnesty Bill, be sure to drop a hint that voting for the Forced Unionization Bill will be one that they will also garner your support for any candidate that challenges them.

Here are the numbers again.