What Class Warfare looks like

With all the bleating about "wealth redistribution" these days, you would think American capitalism itself was under attack.



"Tyranny and socialism!" Those are supposedly the twin outcomes of the potential passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, because said act would supposedly "eliminate" the right for workers to organize by secret ballot.

Except there's one small problem: that's a bald-faced lie.

Or in the words of Jane Hamsher, "it's all complete horseshit:"

Until 35 years ago, workers could choose either secret ballot or majority sign-up ("card check") as a way to recognize a union to contractually represent them. But in 1974, the Supreme Court handed down a decision saying that an employer could refuse to acknowledge majority sign-up and demand a "secret ballot" election instead. The secret ballot system under the jurisdiction of the NLRB has been rife with abuse, as Frank's article details well. The Employee Free Choice Act would simply put the choice about organizing method back in the hands of workers rather than the employer.

You see, it's not as if the "secret ballot" elections are organized and conducted by United Nations elections observers. They're run by management directly, which effectively hands the reins to the whole process to the very same people that workers would be trying to organize against.

It's also the reason we don't have a labor secretary yet:



Shameful.