From SEIU’s blog, wanted to share with everyone at Oxdown:
This morning SEIU unveiled online advertising to promote the New York Times‘ recent support of the early passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. The ads are running on the websites of The Hill, Roll Call, Politico, the Washington Post, and progressive blogs.
In late December 2008, the New York Times editorialized about unions and the Obama Administration’s commitment to labor. The paper gave a full-throated endorsement of the Employee Free Choice Act and why it is such an important part of an economic recovery program.
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SEIU’s online ads invite viewers to join the campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Hopefully the message will get out there that EFCA does NOT take away the workers’ right to a secret ballot. It most emphatically does not. It just makes it easier to get an election done – without the interference and intimidation of the management.
Union power! for workers and their families!
First, it does nothing to alleviate the intimidation of the union and its sympathizers and they get the continued access they have now.
But to your claim: From the website – “Democratic majority sign-up procedures are the most effective way to determine the wishes of a majority of employees. Under majority sign-up procedures, employers are only allowed to recognize a union if a majority of employees has signed valid written forms authorizing union representation. Any employee who does not sign an authorization form is presumed not to support union representation.” I don’t see anything about a secret ballot listed there.
Again, if you are so hip on employee free choice you’ll have no problem letting employees decide whether they want to pay dues or not, i. e. right-to-work.