Comments on: Will Card-Check (Removal of Secret Ballot Union Votes) Kill US Business?

By: Learn The Basics of Investing - Edition #197 of Carnival of Personal Finance

Learn The Basics of Investing - Edition #197 of Carnival of Personal Finance — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:14:49 +0000

[...] finance wonders if removal of the secret ballot will kill US [...]

By: Darwin

Darwin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:07:24 +0000

Got it; thanks for catching that!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:04:01 +0000

the big deal is that in many workplaces, workers will feel intimidated to vote “No” for unionization at a particular company, because if they’re on the losing end of the vote and the company/facility is forced to unionize, there’s going to be hell to pay. I agree, but wouldn't the employee being intimidated into voting "YES" for unionization they didn't want, not "no"?

By: Maurice

Maurice — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:57:25 +0000

A very, very good summation of the story, even-handed on the union vs. non-union issue, but makes very clear that this is..and IMHO, SHOULD BE, a major concern for U.S. business.

The very naming of the bill, the “Employee Free Choice Act” is a classic example of Orwellian doublespeak, or is similar to the perverse naming of bills in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”, where every bill that was introduced to fleece the public was named something grandiose in order to fool the public. This is about as bad as it gets, to call it “Free Choice”, as it will be the exact opposite in practice. But it is part of a pattern, where the Obama administration attacks industry and business. I haven’t seen a SINGLE thing the admin. has done which will lead to higher employment in private industry..only increases (often temporary, such as census workers) in government employees…to the contrary, bills such as ECFA will lead to increasingly worse UNemployment.

Great article, great description of what’s going on.