Here’s another example of how confused the media is, or how much they are buying into the union line on the so-called Employee Free Choice Act. Special story reporter Tiffany – like so many reporters – gets so much wrong. According to her, under current law “the employer decides whether to use the secret ballot.” That’s not true. Under the current law an employer’s only choice is whether to voluntarily recognize the union based on authorization cards. If the employer chooses not to voluntarily recognize the union can ask for a secret ballot election, monitored by the NLRB.
Under the new law, she says, “employees get to vote on how they’ll vote, either secret election or a check-off card.” That is also completely wrong. Unions choose whether to seek a secret ballot under both the current law and the “free choice” act. Once an employee signs a union authorization card they give up their right to speak for themselves and give that right to the union.She still misses the harsh reality – that if given the option of completely circumventing a secret ballot vote, the unions will avoid it every time!
Quoting a Labor Field Coordinator, “Currently the system is stacked against the workers, in favor of the employers so this legislation makes it easier for workers to form unions.”Actually, the current “system” (the dynamic American economic engine – still the best in the world) has made unions an outmoded anachronism, and is stacked against their capability to collect dues and thus bilk the public and bully politicians. Read the transcript – and click on the media link to watch the actual news “report” (if one can call it that).
