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AFL-CIO officials John Sweeney and James Leaman hid the true nature of "card-check" union organizing and instead shilled for their No. 1 legislative priority, the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" ["Yes: Without labor unions, who speaks for the worker?" Viewpoints, March 30].
But this compulsory unionism power grab would unleash a new epidemic of union intimidation directed at workers who do not want to form a union.
In reality, the bill would allow union organizers to bypass secret-ballot elections in favor of card-check drives to unionize workplaces across America.
Rather than vote in private, card-check campaigns force employees to publicly declare whether they support unionization, throwing the door open to rampant union bullying.
The National Right to Work Foundation is helping employees nationwide defend their rights during these coercive unionization drives.
Card-check organizing campaigns already occur today, but if Big Labor's bill passes, they would become the law of the land.
Employees are telling their stories of union harassment to anyone who will listen. Since union organizers are known to use heavy-handed tactics where they fail to persuade, it is no surprise that a recent McLaughlin & Associates poll found that 79 percent of Americans oppose making coercive "card check" the law of the land.
Justin Hakes
Springfield
The writer is legal information director for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.
