The House lead by Pelosi have come up with another scheme to shore up votes for the Democratic Party, they want to build stronger numbers in unions. The House passed the Employee Free Choice Act which gives union heavies the ability to place unscrupulous pressure on workers and the way they vote.

If this bill passes then the worker no longer has the ability to vote in private for or against the union. There will be no more secrete ballots and those opposing the union will be in harms way. Since 1975 there have been a reported 90,000 incidents of violence with 203 deaths where no one was arrested. Believe it or not the “under the 1973 Enmons ruling, the Supreme Court granted union officials immunity from federal prosecution for extortion and violence — including murder — committed while they are pursuing “legitimate union objectives.”*

The way this new bill works is when the majority of the workers sign a card the union is automatically certified no ifs ands or buts. However you have to jump through hoops to decertify a union and a simple majority does not apply.

With union membership plunging the Democratic Party needs to buy off more voters. Union membership was 37% of the work force in 1960, by 1980 unions made up only 20% of the work force and last year made up only 7%. Those in power (like our state senators wanting to be elected for 4 years or life which ever is greater) want to stay empowered.

There was a time and place for unions and there still may be in the future, however we all know that unions cost the American working man jobs over the decades by wages escalating higher than the elasticity of demand. Now most all manufacturing jobs are over seas. Let’s have more unions with higher wages and ship more jobs over seas. Way to go Dems!