Posted by
RME KRNL on Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:51:34 PM
[The following is my latest missive to my U.S. Representative and my two Senators regarding current consideration of the euphemistically named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), otherwise more accurately known as Card Check, which would make employee voting on whether to unionize or not an open process by checking a card, rather than allowing employees to vote secretly and privately, as is our custom in this country. Unions want the voting to be public so they can target and harrass and intimidate those voting not to unionize into changing their votes, thereby gaining more union members, along with their increased membership dues, to be spent as union bosses see fit. By the way, I am not against unions per se. I come from a union family. But I am against this tactic.]
Dear Representative/Senator So-and-so:
I am strongly urging you NOT to support Card Check in any form. I understand that it is a Democrat initiative. I understand that you are a Democrat. I understand that President Obama, probably along with other Democrats, owes Big Labor a debt for helping to elect him. But that debt should not be paid on the backs of hard-working Americans, especially those employed by hundreds of small businesses across the country, by taking away their traditional American right to a secret ballot, simply to further enable Big Labor's attempts to force unionization on workers and grow its own membership and coffers.
Additionally, I think the president has already paid that debt by extra-constitutionally and illegally firing a corporate CEO and giving the UAW such favorable preference over legitimate first-claim stakeholders, many of whom represented other peoples' investment and pension funds, in the GM and Chrysler bailout and bankruptcies debacle.
Enough is enough. Payback is payback, and anything more is just too much. Eliminating the secret ballot would not only be a step too far, it would also be disenfranchisement -- something which Democrats talk about all the time regarding selected categories of their own constituencies.
The American people disapprove of much which this 111th Congress has done, as well as the hurried and haphazard way in which it has done it, and are increasingly also becoming less enamored of the president with each passing day. One should exercise caution so as not to overreach. Continued overreaching of constitutional authority and disregarding of the traditional checks and balances may cost you dearly come 2010, if not before.
If Card Check comes up for a vote, I will be watching your vote on this matter, and accordingly considering my own payback at the next election.
Sincerely,