While the dishonesty of Coleman on the Employee Free-Choice Act has been covered here and elsewhere many times in the last week, the Star Tribune now chimes in and exposes the same Coleman lie. From the end of the article:
“While we are not responsible for this ad, the facts are indisputable,” said Coleman campaign spokesman Luke Friedrich. “Al Franken and those who support the misleadingly-named Employee Free Choice Act support the intent of the bill to take away an individual employee’s right to a secret ballot.”
This, just as the WCCO video that’s been floating around describes, is a lie. In the same article:
In fact, the bill wouldn’t eliminate the secret-ballot election as an option.
It’s interesting that the so-called Coalition for a Democratic Workplace is still running these ads, despite not only being intentionally dishonest but even after being exposed as such.
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It is not in fact a lie at all. The legislation is craftily written but the real life consequences are that there will be no need for a secret ballot ever again. Union organizers will get to choose the method of unionization and once they get 50% + 1 of employees to sign a card the union will be recognized. Thus there will be no need for a secret ballot.
You can learn more at http://www.employeefreedom.org
Union Myth: EFCA wouldn’t eliminate a worker’s access to private-ballot elections. It only gives workers the option of using the “majority signup” system.
Fact: EFCA puts the union—and only the union—in charge of unionizing. There is no required option for employee input. Numerous union organizers have publicly stated that they have no interest in calling for private-ballot elections:
SEIU Union Official Mike Fishman
“There’s no need to subject the workers to an election.”
– Bruce Raynor, UNITE HERE union president
“We don’t do elections.”
– Mike Fishman, high-ranking SEIU union leader
Do I make the choice of signing my union card in public or in private? Keep talking about this issue Publius, it’s like a 70% issue. Why do you think we are running TV ads about it, duh?
It’s funny how the only sources I can find for either of those quotes are anti-union organizations. Supposedly, the Fishman quote was in the Wall Street Journal sometime, but there is no date and no link.
You should check out the actual bill (HR 800) instead of relying solely on the opponents for information. Certification of a union would not be automatic on “50% + 1 of the employees” (what we called a simple majority, back in my day). If a majority of the employees sign a petition for unionization, the NLRB investigates. If the Board finds that a majority has in fact signed valid authorizations, the union is certified.
Why do employers hate this idea so much? Because they wouldn’t have the time they now have for an anti-union campaign. They can’t force workers to attend compulsory “informational” meetings, they can’t (illegally) question workers about uninon sympathies, and they can’t (again, illegally) describe the hell that the workplace will come if the workers unionize. When you talk about “employee input” (who is signing the authorizations, if not employees?), you really mean employer campaigning.
Waitaminutethere…are you suggesting that the Democrat party, the people who have spent the past EIGHT FRICKIN’ YEARS whining about how they were cheated out of a fair election, and screaming to the heavens about how electronic balloting will disenfranchise them are now suggesting that we do away with secret balloting all together?
Why, that would leave the Democrat party standing in the role of skulking hypocrits! I simply cannot believe that is true…I’m sure that AAron has made a mistake, he’s new after all.
Is there a copy editor in the house?
Hhhmmm… who to believe? Should I trust the cheap labor Republican corpratists and their opportunist lapdog Senator Coleman or the working people of America? Tough one there, considering Coleman doesn’t even have the decency to come out and admit he is a Republican in any of his own ads. He goes so far as to use traditional Democratic blue as his color scheme.
Looks to me like Coleman and his controllers are trying to pull a fast one on Minnesotans… again.
Swiftee, I agree 100%
“In fact, the bill wouldn’t eliminate the secret-ballot election as an option.” is obviously a lie then.
The only people who believe that is true are moonbats who hate America and want to talk to our enemies.
Great Job!
To IM and anyone else this may concern: Rick-Rolling is fine, and sometimes funny, but anyone who links to “bringvictory.com” will have their comment deleted. That site takes it to the level of a virus.
Waitaminutethere…are you suggesting that the Democrat party, the people who have spent the past EIGHT FRICKIN’ YEARS whining about how they were cheated out of a fair election, and screaming to the heavens about how electronic balloting will disenfranchise them are now suggesting that we do away with secret balloting all together?
No, only people LYING about the bill are suggesting that.
@ Swiffer:
Something, something…open elections?
First of all, sorry. But it would be funny to see some of our more passionate posters facing the rickster.
Your right Sean, the Democrat party and unions want to make secret balloting optional. So I assume then, if that’s the way to go, if that’s a great idea that Obama & Porn-O-Rama would make it their business to enact the voting optional amendment at the federal level.
You just send in your card, and trust us, we’ll count ‘em up fair and square….right?
Sounds great.
What are you babbling about, jismo?
Swiftee.. still waiting for your outrage at John McCain joking about rape and bestiality… come on get it up one more time for Grand Old Perverts…
Meh. McCain’s a republican. Rape and bestiality is par for the course on that side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2rBOKhJ_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZZizd96_c
For all you who think that the secret ballot is in some way being attacked: You’ve been lied to. Read the bill. There’s nothing of the sort in it.
something tells me Swiffer spends a lot of time reading porn, and is secretly jealous of Al. Poor Swiftboat will never be published in playboy.
Well, Scrotee can be proud he has one of the largest collections of full-frontal male nudity of any republiCon around. He shared a link to it, over on a GOPer site, not too long ago.