Video: Blago, SEIU, and Card Check
posted at 3:33 pm on December 14, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The opponents of Card Check have seized on the discussions noted in the complaint against Rod Blagojevich between the disgraced governor of Illinois and an apparently high-ranking official of the SEIU. The discussions surrounded what the union could do for Blagojevich if he appointed someone that would do the union’s bidding — and that means a stalwart on the EFCA and the end of secret ballots. Workforce Fairness Institute has a web ad making the point that corruption surrounds the Card Check proposal, for good reason:
Stripping workers of their right to a secret ballot in union organizing elections will remove an important safeguard against intimidation and corruption. Forced unionization will bring millions more in dues to unions like the SEIU so that they can offer these kinds of solutions to corrupt politicians.
There is nothing wrong with workers organizing, if they choose, to collectively bargain with management when conditions require it. But the secret ballot requires unions to make the positive case for representation, and intimidation tactics will scare off workers when the vote occurs, which means that unions have to behave themselves to at least a certain extent to remain viable. Removing that safeguard will create an environment where the biggest bullies will succeed the most.
Previous posts on Card Check:
- DeMint conference call: Card Check, bailouts
- Card Check: A direct pipeline to corruption and abuse
- Can Obama get Democrats to support Card Check?
- Video: The Card Check ad CBS doesn’t want you to see
- Irony escapes the House Democratic Caucus
- Guess who used the secret ballot … again?
- Video: Meet Union Boss Bill
- USA Today: Stop Card Check …
- Video: McGovern on Card Check
- George McGovern to fight Card Check in debate ad
- Video: What if Congress passed Card Check for all elections?
- FRC Action Summit: Barbara Comstock on EFCA
- George McGovern: Stop Card Check
- Where did the SEIU get $150 million for politics?
- Right Online Conference: John Fund
- Maybe this is why they need Card Check?
- Video: “I Hate Heroes”
- Johnny Sac takes on the unions
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I’m quite partial to that myself. Why would any supreme ruler choose anything different?
PootyPoot on December 14, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Sadly, once Obama is in office Card Check is virtually assured. Unions have already killed the steel industry, they’re on the verge of deep sixing the auto industry; wonder what other sectors they’d like to kill with bloated pay, benefits and rich pensions?
redfoxbluestate on December 14, 2008 at 3:39 PM
If you’re interested in joining people praying for our country, you can go to:
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Truth
And light a virtual candle. It will “burn” for 48-hours. Light as many as you feel you would like to. No limit.
UnderstandingisPower on December 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Healthcare. Nothing would make them happier than to eliminate the secret balloting so they can openly intimidate women. Control the nurses you control all healthcare.
batterup on December 14, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Corruption at it’s finest.
Let’s see who will be the first reporter with a backbone to report the WHOLE truth.
christene on December 14, 2008 at 3:48 PM
Candles are dandy
But Torches and Pitchforks are quicker
PercyB on December 14, 2008 at 3:50 PM
There might be a few Dems who wouldn’t vote for it. Blanche Lincoln is from Arkansas, home of Wal-Mart. She is up for re-election in 2010.
I wonder about the Montana guys, too. Westerners tend to be right-to-work. Tim Johnson of SD might not have been around for the first votes. SD has stolen jobs from MN because of low taxes and right-to-work laws.
Depend on how much Harry can control his majority.
RINO Specter is up in 2010 and might not vote for it. Union always votes Dem in PA, so no reason to pander. I don’t know if he’ll have a conservative challenger yet, but he won’t have Bush endorsing him this time around. Specter barely beat Toomey.
Without the assurance that Bush would veto, and Dems couldn’t override, some RINOS may have thought it was safe to vote for it. Now some may not want to be the tipping vote for cloture.
Wethal on December 14, 2008 at 3:59 PM
I hope the Democrats go full blast for card check. It’s a slam-dunk for the GOP.
Bugler on December 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM
The real Culture of Corruption
Kini on December 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Rahm Emmanuel was the one who recruited most of the Red State Democrats who won election in 2006 and last year to the House and Senate. It will be interesting to see how they handle it, and what Rahm and the White House do, if it turns out Card Check can’t pass without the Blue Dog Democrats’ support.
jon1979 on December 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM
I see your thug and raise two thugs. Check.
izoneguy on December 14, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Of course, one has to wonder if Rahm will be doing this out of the White House or back in the House. Did he officially resign from his House seat yet? Given the Blago stuff, one wonders how long it will be before OBama throws him under the bus, and Rahm has to go back to his old job (if it’s still there).
Wethal on December 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM
I POSTED ON THE OBAMA/SEIU/CHICGO MACHINE CONNECTION ONE YEAR AGO.
reliapundit on December 14, 2008 at 4:11 PM
This downward spiral towards unionization of all business will eventually lead to the collapse and then restructuring of virtually all businesses. They will not be able to support the workforce. So the governement will take them over. Then you have consolidation of product. Less competition, less choice, which will result in lower quality.
Reminds me of the photos I used to see of Russian food markets in the 60’s. There was one brand of bread. Rows and rows of one brand and so on.
katy on December 14, 2008 at 4:15 PM
I expect they’ll try card check as soon as possible, and hope that the voters have forgotten by 2010. And while most of the country is still in a Hopeychange mood and thinking Obama’s programs will bring that Brave New World he promised, wihtout thinking through the implications.
Wethal on December 14, 2008 at 4:16 PM
I beg to differ. A union is a monopoly. Same principle, same result. Only the stakeholders are different.
How ridiculous is it that the workers can vote to force all of their coworkers into a union. Imagine if all the gas stations got to vote to determine whether or not to fix gas prices.
Count to 10 on December 14, 2008 at 4:17 PM
And then nationalize it. Unions eventually kill their host industry, but it is much harder to make governments collapse. This is what is happening to CA–anybody really think the unions will pay for what they have done?
Count to 10 on December 14, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Q: How can you tell if a union worker is dead?
A: The donut rolls out of his hand
merryprankster23 on December 14, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Whoa, they used the same music from the “What Just Happened?” ad about the Fannie and Freddie deal.
Admaking looks just like some of McCain’s ads. I wonder if they’re done by the same peeps…
Abby Adams on December 14, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Everything even slightly having to do with union “labor” is corrupt and rotten to the core.
Unions have long outlived their usefullness and should be banned, much as other organized crime syndicates have been rooted out.
Union members and union leaders are both un-American and anti-American.
NoDonkey on December 14, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Card Check (for Unionbusters): Already here, courtesy of:
Jackson Lewis
The Burke Group
Grigsby & Cohen
Rick Berman
The folks who obliterate the secret ballot by legal “dirty pool”. They turn it into “secret only if you vote no”.
sethstorm on December 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Ban unionbusters first.
sethstorm on December 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM
A: If Vance International fired the shot on a “provocation”.
sethstorm on December 14, 2008 at 7:44 PM
‘Card Check’,will be intimidation right from the top,and then passed along to the ‘political party’, and then,your
going to be watched,especially if you voted for the wrong guy,because ‘they’ will be questioning your reasoning and
judgement!!
canopfor on December 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM
As opposed to a unionbusting organization such as named earlier in this thread?
Either way, there is no secret ballot. Perhaps if they weren’t stuck in the 1980’s, unions wouldn’t have to retaliate in such means.
sethstorm on December 14, 2008 at 8:07 PM
This is only a front for individuals and groups who have “damaged goods” reputation in their name.
sethstorm on December 14, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Federal and state employees should not be allowed to unionize.
And I’d take it a step further and say those that can unionize do not have the right to vote.
Or, even further, anyone getting a government stipend of any kind (socialist security, medicare, etc.) dosn’t have a right to vote.
Hell. Let’s go all out. Only people owning property have the right to vote. Property can be defined very loosely. Own a tv? Ok. You can vote.
BowHuntingTexas on December 14, 2008 at 9:40 PM
1824, a year that lives in infamy. Repeal it!
OldEnglish on December 15, 2008 at 7:11 AM
What is with that freakin’ hairdo? Is he supposed to look like an actor, who is trying to look like JFK? What is with crooked Dems and their goofy coiffures?
Hening on December 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM
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