As we’ve been saying for more than a year, the card check organizing process preferred by union bosses is rife with intimidation — and misinformation. The latest comes from Minnesota, where a daycare worker says SEIU lied to get authorization cards signed. The union officials then turned around with the signed cards to offer a false show of support. Diana Friemann’s letter to the Post-Bulletin alleges:
Members of the Service Employee International Union are attempting to pass a bill called the “Employee Free Choice Act.” This bill would force employers to recognize the “card check process.”
If the union has the support of day-care providers, we want a fair vote like all Americans deserve, not a card check. In the state of Illinois, only 10 percent of providers who signed cards are union members; 90 percent who signed cards are not union members.
Add that to UNITE HERE’s increasingly visible ethical lapses in card check organizing and people are starting to get a better idea of what’s in store for working Americans if labor leaders can successfully buy political support for the Employee Free Choice Act.