Comments on: Union Card Check Legislation On Back Burner http://donklephant.com/2009/01/02/union-card-check-legislation-on-back-burner/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:33:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nick Benjamin http://donklephant.com/2009/01/02/union-card-check-legislation-on-back-burner/comment-page-1/#comment-434513 Nick Benjamin Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:26:54 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=12480#comment-434513 Stron-arm tactics by unions in a card check election are a right-wing paranoid fantasy. AFAIK there has never been a time, in the enbtire history of mankind, where a union has bullied workers into joining. I know that's true in the US and Canada. Ontario actually had card check for years, and exactly zero cases of unions strong-arming unwilling workers. There's a reason for that. Workers can get rid of a union they don't want whenever they fell like it. And union votes take place on private property. Go you really think the UAW can sneak dozens of toughs onto a major manufacturing plant, and not have trouble with armed security guards? OTOH, it's SOP for employers to hire dozens of extra gaurds to watch the vote. Stron-arm tactics by unions in a card check election are a right-wing paranoid fantasy. AFAIK there has never been a time, in the enbtire history of mankind, where a union has bullied workers into joining. I know that’s true in the US and Canada. Ontario actually had card check for years, and exactly zero cases of unions strong-arming unwilling workers.

There’s a reason for that. Workers can get rid of a union they don’t want whenever they fell like it. And union votes take place on private property. Go you really think the UAW can sneak dozens of toughs onto a major manufacturing plant, and not have trouble with armed security guards?

OTOH, it’s SOP for employers to hire dozens of extra gaurds to watch the vote.

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