Big Labor has no lack of imagination. These buttons (see more here) are part of their PR strategy to attempt to win Americans over to the idea that giving unions free reign among American businesses is a positive economic move, on both a micro- and macro-scale. Unfortunately, the messaging is riddled with myth and falsehood.
Check out these dandies.
Employees already have the freedom to decide, via the most protected mechanism available – a private secret ballot. They can receive no recriminations from employers or unions because neither side needs to know the outcome of their final choice.
The answer to a financial depression & the rebuilding of our economy? Just bog American businesses down with non-competitive global wage scales, restrictive work rules, and additional bureaucracy, and see how long it takes us to slog through the current financial quagmire.
Thriving industry provides jobs. Thriving industry creates the incentive for competitors to enter the market place, creating more jobs, and fostering a “sellers market” for talent. With everything that the Obama administration is doing to shackle our industries (yes – all of the “bailout” money going to banks, financial institutions, auto companies, etc, WILL come with unnecessary and burdensome bureaucratic restrictions attached), what we don’t need is the additional anchor of union impediment hanging around the necks of our businesses.
