Published today in the WSJ

The Online Wall Street Journal describes meetings where retailer Wal-Mart tells managers that a Democrat president and increased Democrat majority in the US Senate could lead to “card check” being passed for workers’ “representation” by the mob labor unions. Presently companies can demand union votes held by secret ballot in an election. Under card check, mob union bosses can pressure employees with horse heads left in beds – by fitting non-complying employees with concrete shoes – through persuasion with a baseball bat to simply sign membership cards and once 50% of the employees in a company sign, the company is considered unionized.

“Unions consider the Employee Free Choice Act as vital to the survival of the labor movement, which currently represents 7.5% of private-sector workers, half the percentage it did 25 years ago. The Service Employees International Union said the legislation would enable it to organize a million workers a year, up from its current pace of 100,000 workers a year.”

Of course. When you can have employees simply fill out membership cards or, in the case of SEIU many of its targeted members either are minimally literate or cannot read English, have a organizer fill out the cards for the employee. Its just like the Democrats stuffing ballot boxes in Center Township (Marion County).

 ”The business-backed lobbying groups are running ads in states where a win by a Democratic Senate candidate would boost support for the legislation in the Senate, saying the loss of secret ballots exposes workers to bullying labor bosses. In one, they use an actor from the “Sopranos” TV series about mob life to hammer home their point.”

In states like Indiana with “closed shop” laws, employees could be forced to pay significant fees for little representation and contributions to political candidates the employee may not support, such as candidates that are anti-life and anti-freedom. Also, the employee can be without work with very little compensation if the union bosses call for a strike.

Which is why Indiana should step up and pass a Right To Work law. Nationally we must make sure laws like card check don’t pass. If you think jobs are hard to come by now, just wait until this passes and that’ll finish off what is left of US industry.