Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Monday, September 07, 2009 9:43:03 PM
It's my 50th birthday today, so I'm taking the day off from serious writing. However, like a birthday boy, I have a few requests.
Please, on this Labor Day, read this column by Mark Mix, who is the president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. He reminds us that
It's Labor Day, not Union Day. If you want to support America's workers, you must oppose any and all union power grabs like the Orwellian-named Employee Free Choice Act. You also must support Right to Work laws in all states. No worker should ever be forced to join a union he or she does not wish to join as a condition of employment. As a victim of forced union membership myself, I can tell you it stinks. The union membership is more interested in forcing more members into their dues-paying ranks than they are in protecting the rights and advancing the interests of the members they already have. They also insist on supporting Democrat candidates that will hike taxes on workers and will impose job-killing taxes and regulations on business. They also support Democrats because the Dems will help them help themselves -- to huge salaries, pasha perks, and actions more exploitive to workers than any employer would dare to perpetrate.
Next, I request you check out the home page of the
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Perhaps you don't understand all that the union bosses and their political allies are up to. I hope that, if you are motivated to do so, that you will support the foundation's efforts to free workers from compulsory unionism. Sign up for the e-mail, too. It's an invaluable resource, and very reliable. You're going to have to get the truth somewhere, and it won't be from the MSM.
Lastly, write or call your representatives in national or state government. Let them know that you oppose forcing anyone to join a union that they do not wish to join. If they want to join, that's fine. That's the American way. Back when I went to school, we called that "freedon of association". Let them know, however, that they must not support the Employee Free Choice Act
or any variation thereof!
Before you write your state representatives, check the map at the NRWLDF website to see if you're in a right-to-work state. If you are, tell your representatives that you expect them to defend your rights against all threats from whatever quarter they may come. If you are not, demand that your state pass a right-to-work law. The states that have them consistently outperform the states that do not in job creation and job retention. Ask them why you should support them if they refuse to pass laws that will make the economy of your state more vibrant. We are living in times of economic crisis. We need government to lower the barriers to growth, not raise or retain them.
Happy Labor Day.