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Chellie Pingree, Maine’s 1st district Congressional candidate, makes no secret she supports the Employee “Free Choice” Act. It is always easier to say you support something without letting your constituents know what the bill will actually do. The Employee “Free Choice” Act will take away a worker’s right to a private ballot, but Chellie dodges that question by saying it is more complicated. The bill, which is co-sponsored by Representative Tom Allen, coincidentally the seat Pingree is campaigning to take over, will make voting on whether to unionize a public showcase. With 92% of Mainers opposed to card-check, Big Labor funded politicians have to toe the line in their support for EFCA.

We will be looking forward to talking to Chellie Pingree more about the Employee “Free Choice” Act in the future.

In this clip, Betsy Markey, Democrat candidate for the 4th Congressional District of Colorado, chooses to ignore the fact that workers will lose their right to private ballot elections through EFCA, instead choosing to focus on the fact the Employee Free Choice Act will punish businesses and streamline the union organization process that has been in place since the great depression. Typical for a Union-backed Democrat, Markey does not see business as an opportunity for workers and the backbone of our economy, but rather as a hindrance that fails to advance her liberal agenda. She has already received over $62,000 from Union interests this election cycle thus far, a sum that will continue to increase through the course of the race.

Her website and campaign literature claim that she is a supporter of small business, but this is in direct opposition of her support for EFCA, legislation that will make it incredibly easy to unionize those small businesses, thus lowering productivity/profitability and making it harder to achieve success. Markey’s backing of this issue is clearly not in line with the hard working folks or entrepreneurial small businesses of Eastern and Northern Colorado…

Jeanne Shaheen continues to refuse to answer a very simple question: do workers have the right to a secret ballot when a labor organizer tries to unionize their shop?  It’s no surprise that she’s unable to give a straight answer as her position is, to most Americans, completely untenable.

Wow! Check out this video of New Hampshire’s Democratic Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen totally botching her response to a constituent’s question about labor unions’ plans to eliminate workplace democracy by destroying the 60-year-old tradition of electing unions by a private ballot election.

In addition to the passage of a resolution suggesting that current SEIU members will have to sacrifice pay raises for the “cause,” the SEIU had other signs of trouble at its convention. Specifically, SEIU local leader Sal Rosselli had a lot to say about the SEIU’s “Unity Resolution”:

We told you yesterday about one of the latest elections losses — and an embarrassing one at that — for the Teamsters. Now we find video, courtesy of the Union News Blog, of video showing Teamsters members behaving … um … less than professionally. Bonus: see if you can spot intimidation of replacement workers! (Here’s some background.)

More video of Carpenters union shenanigans today. WARNING: Violence and language

We’ve come across a couple interesting videos of demonstrations by Carpenters union officials and a few rowdy members. Watch this first video (and go here to see the whole thing):