Lessons in Hypocrisy: How Union Bosses React When the Union's Own Employees Want to Unionize 

Here on Freedom@Work, we have told you about President Obama's deeply disturbing executive orders aimed at blacklisting the 92.5 percent of America's private-sector workers who have chosen not to unionize.

One of the orders effectively bars federal contractors from sharing truthful, non-coercive information with their employees about the downsides of unionization.

For an example of what this kind of information is like, look no further than what union management says when employees of a union wish to unionize.

In the letter linked below, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union president J.J. Barry warns against "chang[ing] the system...solely because of an effort stemming from the isolated complaints of a few [union employees]." Moreover,

The selection of a bargaining representative is likely to change the nature of the employer/employee relationship, by making it more formal and structured, and diminishing the present system of direct resolution of issues between Represenatives and their Vice Presidents, Department Directors, etc.

But union bosses cry foul when other employers express similar opinions, and now their powerful pro-forced unionism allies in government want to ban such speech by federal contractors so the contractors' employees are denied the right to make a fully informed choice.

Click here to read the full letter (PDF).

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Comments

Are you serious??

Are you people on this website trying to suggest that Labor Unions are bad for laboring people?

You should be investigated for truth in advertising for the misleading name of your gang.

I suppose you're against minimum wage because that's for the workers own good.

Get off the Jimmy Hoffa bandwagon for chrissake. That was forty years ago and Nixon, a Conservative Republican disgraced criminal pardoned him.

Speak for yourself. I don't

Speak for yourself. I don't want a union at my place of employment and neither do most of my coworkers. But if this ridiculous Employee Free Choice Act gets passed, we might not have a choice in the matter. I pray that the republicans can filibuster this dangerous piece of legislation.

Are you serious??

Are you people on this website trying to suggest that Labor Unions are bad for laboring people?

You should be investigated for truth in advertising for the misleading name of your gang.

I suppose you're against minimum wage because that's for the workers own good.

Get off the Jimmy Hoffa bandwagon for chrissake. That was forty years ago and Nixon, a Conservative Republican disgraced criminal pardoned him.

Serious.

I try to live my life in accordance with the Bible and part of that living is to honor thy father and mother. To me that includes all those in authority over me. The government, my boss, my employer. I reject the whole idea of unionized labor because to me it is my duty to perform my job to the best I am able and in doing so honor those above me who depend on me to work hard.

I don't go looking for handouts. Minimum wage is not for the worker's own good. It encourages laziness in my opinion. If you don't like your pay go work somewhere else and in doing so improve yourself and your mind. Let's not keep supporting the lazy union workers who drove the US automakers into the ground.


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