Louisville Courier Journal columnist Al Cross strikes a blow for labor unions today by claiming an advertisement campaign against their very real effort to replace secret ballots with intimidation campaigns is just some kind of political spin:
"...overcome the distaste created by the candidates' silly attack ads -- and the so-called "issue ads" from business interests that attack Lunsford for supporting labor unions' current priority, legislation that would let them organize workplaces only with employee signatures on cards rather than a secret-ballot election."
"With their phrasing and images, those ads seem intended to mislead casual viewers and listeners into thinking that secret ballots in elections for public office are at risk if they vote for Lunsford."
The truth is Lunsford and his big union supporters should have to explain why they want to do away with secret ballots in the workplace and why we should believe that if they are successful there that they won't seek to run public elections the same way.
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Card check is already being used in Kentucky by the UAW to intimidate auto suppliers into agreeing to illegal collective bargaining agreements. Former employees of the Dana plant in Elizabethtown related how Ford officials - in tandem with the UAW - coerced the management of this plant into signing a union agreement (using card check) without requiring a vote of its employees.
If the unions had the carte blanche authority to do this in ANY plant in Kentucky, the unions would be on their way to 100% compliance - of the plant managers not smart enough to move their operation to another country where entrepreneurship is treated with respect and dignity.
Will the last plant leaving Kentucky please shut off the lights?
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