It's payback time. Big Labor came through for the Democrats in November and now it's the Democrats turn to come through for the Dems.
Organized labor is going the way of typewriters and poodle skirts. Somewhat quaint, but no longer necessary or relevant. Sadly, the only growth in union membership has been in the government sector. (Side note: and we wonder why our taxes continue to rise?).
The trend in recent years has been workers nodding their heads in apparent agreement with union organizers, but voting against union membership in the privacy of the voting booth.
But wait! Union leadership has a new idea - just get rid of secret ballots. And so the outrageously misnamed "Employee Free Choice Act" was born.
Instead of workers casting secret ballots, the EFCA allows union organizers to find workers and encourage them to sign cards requesting union representation. I'm not saying the organizers would resort to baseball bats or brass knuckles, but there is nothing in this law that protects the worker from coercion.
While this is certainly "change", it don't think it's exactly the change we have been waiting for. What's next? No more secret ballots come election time?
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