The Encyclopedias Arrived Yesterday

One of the reasons why people claim to support card check legislation is that it supposedly gets rid of intimidation. Well, guess what, folks, it doesn't..............................................................Let me explain here. About three or four years ago, the health-care workers union came into our place and tried to get us to join them. They started off by recruiting a couple of true believers and, yeah, you got it, so, too, did the frigging hard-sell emerge (cards, cards, and more cards). You want to talk about intimidation/peer pressure/making a bunch of bogus promises (the owner of our facility makes about a one percent profit, by the way). Half the poor bastards who signed those cards did it just to get these characters off their backs..............................................................And, no, folks, I'm not saying that the management side was completely sympathetic, either. They absolutely plead their case. But, as far as I could tell, there wasn't a solitary example of strong-armed tactics (and certainly not one that was ever proved)...........................................................As for this whole ruse that the proponents of this legislation offer; that it doesn't necessarily stifle secret ballots but instead leaves it up to the workers, what in the hell kind of argument is that? I mean, seriously, what kind of a negotiation is it that basically allows one side to set up the parameters of it? Let us frigging be honest here, folks. This is the Democratic party capitulating to labor (paying them back for their support, evidently) - pure and simple. Kind of like what the Republicans do to the gun lobby. Got to love it, huh?..................................................................P.S. Yes, we voted the union down.