Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Workers Take Note: Employee Free Choice Act -- Republicans Hate It

To my Fellow Workers:

The Employee Free Choice act is backed by America's unions and would help rebuild the Middle Class. Nauturally the Republicans are against it. Naturally. Why should we have any help for the Middle Class? It's the Rich who count.

If the Republicans hate it you can be assured that it is worthy of serious consideration. Once the Republicans put the Mojo on something, that's a hint that it's a good thing. Here's why.

As a member of no less than THREE unions (AFTRA, SAG and UTLA), I support the Employee Free Choice Act. And I hope Obama supports it and Congress passes it. I have been reading that maybe the Democrats are backing away from it. Please do your part. Help give the Dems in Congress some spine, to encourage them to support the Employee Free Choice Act.

The Republicans have been circulating lies about it, mainly that it would destroy secret balloting in the workplace for union organizing. Bullshit. Nothing of the sort. It gives employees a choice of secret ballot or signing a card. And it makes it much easier to form a union in a workplace. That's what the Republicans and their Corporate Masters are scared of.

I worked at a nonunion newspaper once. Believe me, it stinks. It was like a plantation, and I was a cottonpicking slave. If the publisher could have had his way totally, I would have been quartered in a tiny shack with a dirt floor behind the office building and living on hardtack, beans and a little salt pork.

Go here to take action


Workers of the World, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.

Sincerely,


NEWSGUY

2 comments:

Annette said...

I do support it and have signed the petition. I am hoping it will come up soon. With the popularity of the President and the Democratic Congress we should be able to get it through if they will hold it together. That's the problem, the stupid blue dogs in the south..they might just as well be republicans.

NEWSGUY said...

WAAAIT a minute! You're from Missiouri, Annette. That's in the South. You have Democrats there who might as well be Republicans?