Union organizing Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800)

[Omaha Steve]

http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/denver/letters/2007/04/union_organizing.html

Union organizing
Wednesday, April 18 at 10:52 AM


Paul Greene of Denver writes:

Mr. Mark Latimer, in his letter of 04/10/07, complains about the Democrats efforts to “dismantle” the Colorado Labor Peace Act and the probable passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800).
Mr. Latimer decries H.R. 800 for requiring only a card check majority for a group of employees to acquire collective bargaining rights. This has become necessary due to organizations like his effectively denying a fair election for employees through shenanigans by a National Labor Relations Board, appointed by a union hating President, that is clearly biased on the side of management determined to not allow Union organizing.

If Mr. Latimer would check his facts before going off on a tirade, he would find that employees are fired in almost every Union organizing campaign prior to an often delayed election, again manipulated by management and their political connected cronies on the NLRB. If employees are fortunate enough to get to an endlessly delayed election, they have been so indoctrinated by a one sided campaign of misconceptions, myths, half truths and outright lies that there is no way for the election to not be tainted.

As far as the so called “dismantling” of the Colorado Labor Peace Act, Mr Latimer’s organization is well aware of the need for a 75% majority to win a Colorado Labor Peace Act election. This must be his idea of fairness. If there was a real Democrat in the Governor’s office, who truly supported workers and just didn’t talk the talk, this unfair law would of been repealed.

I find it ironic that Mr. Latimer, and his organization, that has fought against the very right of workers to organize, is now trying to disguise themselves as the protector of these same workers rights by maintaining all of the unfair laws that have kept them down. I looked up hypocrisy in the dictionary and found the logo of the Associated Builders and Contractors.

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