{"id":6476,"date":"2010-08-09T09:53:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T13:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2010-08-09T09:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T13:54:01","slug":"if-this-is-how-union-staff-treat-one-other-imagine-card-check-thuggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6476\/if-this-is-how-union-staff-treat-one-other-imagine-card-check-thuggery\/","title":{"rendered":"If This Is How Union Staff Treat One Other, Imagine the Thuggery if &#8220;Card-Check&#8221; Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If union representatives treat each other thuggishly, just imagine how they&#8217;d behave outside the homes of skeptical employees under card-check legislation.\u00a0 Consider the words of Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers co-founder, as reported in Saturday&#8217;s<em> Wall Street Journal<\/em> commentary entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB20001424052748703748904575411690281176142.html#mod=todays_us_opinion\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;California&#8217;s Union Shakedown&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dolores Huerta, a co-founder of United Farm Workers and a historic labor figure in California, published an &#8216;open letter&#8217; to [SEIU leader Mary Kay] Henry on the Huffington Post that accuses the SEIU of intimidating Kaiser workers.\u00a0 Saying that she visited four Kaiser hospitals to talk to workers about the NUHW, Ms. Huerta wrote that at each, &#8216;SEIU staff surrounded them and began chanting and yelling insults, refusing to let workers talk.&#8217;\u00a0 Ms. Huerta called on the SEIU to put &#8216;an end to a mistaken campaign of aggression.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Under the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/53-employment-and-labor\/297-card-check-is-now-really-the-time-to-jeopardize-even-more-jobs\" target=\"_blank\">Employee Free Choice Act<\/a> &#8211; which remains on the legislative wish list of Big Labor, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama &#8211; union campaign reps would have access to employees at their homes, supermarkets and elsewhere.\u00a0 If union agents treated Ms. Huerta, one of their own, that way, just imagine how thuggish they might behave at the home addresses of reluctant employees.\u00a0 Yet another illustration of the need to maintain the democratic secret ballot during union elections, rather than allow union leaders to eliminate it via card-check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If union representatives treat each other thuggishly, just imagine how they&#8217;d behave outside the homes of skeptical employees under card-check legislation.\u00a0 Consider the words of Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers co-founder, as reported in Saturday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal commentary entitled &#8220;California&#8217;s Union Shakedown&#8221;: Dolores Huerta, a co-founder of United Farm Workers and a historic labor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,78,829,1186,477,1051],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-labor","tag-card-check","tag-employee-free-choice-act","tag-labor","tag-seiu","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6478,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}