| Man, looks like they've started cranking. The Montana Chamber of Commerce is shedding crocodile tears for the workers who will be "hurt" by the Employee Free Choice Act.
I've got a question pending in their comments as to whether they support the binding arbitration and anti-intimidation provisions of the Free Choice Act. No comment on that yet.
What is more remarkable is that they continue to claim that the bill removes workers' right to a secret ballot, when it does no such thing. It simply gives workers' an alternate organizing method: majority sign-up. NLRB elections can still be held, but at the workers' discretion, not the employers.
Hell - if we're going to mandate secret ballot elections, I say we also require that managers face secret ballot elections held by their employees. Because it makes complete sense that employees get to dictate to management who represents management -- right?
We're about to see a whole hell of a lot of dishonesty from corporate executives who make, on average, 350+ times the wage of their working-class employees. We're going to witness an entire movement of contemporary conservatives who fight the right to vote in public elections demanding it in the workplace -- and fighting to protect it with the anti-democratic filibuster.
It's irony wrapped in a cynical tortilla of desperation. Paid for with the money that in a just country would be going to workers. |
