More Obama Change: Forced Unions
Here is yet another piece of legislation that we can all get behind right? Well, maybe not. It’s called the Employee Free Choice Act. Now while I agree with many of the “ideas” behind it, the execution of it is totally off base.
First, some of the marketing is very misleading. For instance, on their site they say that “American workers want to form unions” and then goes on to say that 60 million workers want to form unions. That’s all good and dandy, too bad there are about 140 million workers in the US. So a minority of workers want to unionize so we NEED unions now?
Unions are “key” to turning the economy around? Really? Last I checked unions were a big reason why American car companies are failing. They force the company out of competitiveness.
All of the reasons behind, the real problem that I see is that voting to unionize would no longer be based on secret ballots. Why on God’s earth would you want this? Well, the only reasonable explanation I have is to give the union supporters the ability to intimidate those who do not want to unionize. Why else would you do this? Please, someone explain this to me.
So here we go again, change for the sake of change; good or bad. You all voted for change so enjoy it.