Specter: Senate should consider passing legislation to eliminate secret ballot because National Labor Relations Board ‘is not functioning at all … it is dysfunctional’…
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Arlen is dysfunctional. He should consider retiring before the next ballot.
“We’ve had places where we got 100 percent. Then, by the time the election comes around, we lose a vote,” Connors said.
I suspect that some signed the card under duress or threat or duress.
Fortunately, the person who threatened them could not follow them into the voting booth.
Lemme see if I understand this proposal…….
The NLRB is dysfunctional, so instead of dealing with the dysfunction in the NLRB, we need to strip workers of the right to a secret ballot. Makes perfect sense. /sarc Maybe, just maybe, you should concentrate on dealing with the dysfunction in the NLRB? Just a thought……..
Arlen, you need to spend some quality time with your family.
Arlen needs to go. Another reason not to vote Republican. Clueless! (and liberal)
That’s our Arlen! Socialism trumps the democratic process…
More unions will translate to higher labor costs and will simply accelerate the “great sucking sound” of jobs going overseas. People need to make a living and pay their bills, but the heavy hand of unions has killed the big 3 automakers and will kill other businesses. We are headed in a downward spiral of vote buying and a money for nothing mentality.
He’s lost my moderate republican vote!
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Arlen could be retiring, but if he’s running in 2010 I think he’ll want to find something to make conservatives happy. A new kind of Clarence Thomas issue where he could ask tough questions of an Anita Hill.
Over the years Specter and the GOP insiders have had “conservative” operatives out doing their bidding.
One such clown I’m aware of is a restaurant owner from the Lancaster County area named Ed Martino.
Martino has done a lot of ads on WDAC Radio, the Lancaster Christian radio station over the years.
When James Dobson came into Lancaster County to endorse Pat Toomey in 2004, Martino was among those standing outside to promote Specter.
Martino first showed up on the scene as part of something called the “Religious Roundtable” as its Pennsylvania leader in the early 1980’s. RR appears to have been some sort of front group to link churches with the GOP Establishment.
Martino attacked pro-life candidate Peg Luksik when she ran an independent campaign for governor against Tom Ridge. Luskik picked up 13 percent in 1994 and 8 percent in 1998 as an indy when Ridge got elected both times. Martino’s attack line was something like Luksik was a mother and couldn’t be governor with small children. No kidding. I wonder what Mr. Martino thinks of Sarah Palin.
Well my point is that Mr. Martino introduced Arlen to someone who holds our First Amendment very dear because his free speech was taken away by the Federal Communications Commission under the “Fairness Doctrine” in the 1970’s. Arlen got an earful about the issue from a “victim.” I think the “Fairness Doctrine” is a trump card Specter could use depending on what happens in what appears to be the third Clinton presidential term under the shell of Barack Obama.
He will use it to draw conservatives to him and I think Mr. Limbaugh has been made aware of Arlen’s deep concern for “free speech.” Get ready for “our special guest on the EIB Network today is Senator Arlen Specter…..” His third visit with El Rushbo to discuss “free speech” could be just around the corner.
20-10-30-Out.
Arlen is a waste of space.
But watch for the establishment RINOs to circle the wagons around him; Jubes, Brightbill, Long, Gleason will work overtime for Arlen, not because he is the best man but because of their personal vitriol against conservatives in the GOP.
What part of liberalism, socialism, communism, don’t you like, Arlen and PA Republicans?
This is why after over 35 years my family, some friends, and I have just recently dropped the ‘R’ in party affiliation and went to ‘I’ status. We don’t care about the primaries anymore because they are controlled by a self serving money crowd who only looks for those that ‘are electable’.
It’s disturbing that he refers to the employer’s (lack of a) right to a secret ballot. What about the employee’s right to a secret ballot?
The employer should have the right to hire and fire at will. As soon as they unionize, fire them all and start over.
My secret dream (not so secret anymore) is that Ford, GM, and Chrysler will fire everyone, close for a month, and reopen the doors as non-union shops in the mold of Toyota and Nissan. There are thousands of employees at those companies that want NOTHING to do with the unions. They’re happy, they’re treated well, and they feel they have purpose in their jobs…as a result, they work hard and make a superior product.
While we’re in the firing mood……….Let’s make “the Donald” look like a wuss in comparison…….
Can we fire all of the idiots in Congress who imposed things like CAFE standards on the big three?
And those who propose implementing a carbon cap and trade policy?
How about those who proposed/wrote regulations that mandate the gasoline additive MTBE?
How about the idiots that hauled the CEO’s of Exxon, et.al. before Congress when gas was $4/gallon? Can we fire those idiots as well? Please?
And what about the idiots in Congress(but I repeat myself) who insist on imposing a non-border adjustable tax burden on our corporations—including the big three? Can we fire them too? Please?
And what of the idiots who are in charge of our currency and money supply? Can we fire them too? Please?
And Supreme Court Precedent from the New Deal forward…..can we trash that too?
That ought to just about drain the swamp in DC. Maybe we should start again…..by reading and studying the Constitution……..hitting the reset button…………CONTROL-ALT-DELETE………
Sounds to me that it’s time for pitch forks, tar, feathers, and more than a few Liberty Trees. Way past time, actually.
He’s against us when it counts.
This “card check” is one of the worst bills ever floated in DC. It is nothing but a union political payback that will undoubtedly raise the cost of labor, make America less competitive globally, lead to more bailouts of industries, and most importantly – will strip the American worker the right to decide for themselves whether they want a union to “represent” them and take a percentage of their wage every week or two. This is a disgrace and any legislator who supports should be thrown out of office with their pants pulled over their head. What a disgrace that any “public official” would sell their soul to the devil and support this crap in exchange for union support at the polls and union thug money.
Arlen Specter is to long a politician. It’s time to show him the door, something I have been saying for a long time.
I worked for a scum union and believe me they are the worst. They only back lazy incompetent trouble makers in the work place and their goal is to fund political activity’s with union dues that you wouldn’t support yourself.
Unions are the boil on America’s back and will do anything to remove your freedoms. In ex. the private ballot.
Remember the Hershey candy company strikes? Local 464 EIEIOO union really helped it’s workers didn’t they? That’s why their jobs are moving out of the country. Hear that sucking sound!! again.
Unions can go pound sand!
American by birth, Anti-union by choice!!
The sad part is that you can call or write him til your blue in the face and he will still give you the finger and do his own thing – and the state GOP will continue to roll for him.
The elimination of a workers secret ballot should be joined to the elimination of secret ballots during caucus meetings.
If workers don’t have secret ballots, Senators and Representatives shouldn’t either. This should be the strategy of pro-economy senators: introducing an amendment to also eliminate secret ballots during caucus meetings, and let the union-thug controlled senators explain their need for secret ballots, while hanging workers out to dry.
Amen
Even more, have ALL meetings, Caucus, etc. open to the public.
As the Big 3, crippled by union costs, asks for bailout money, these morons want to promote more unions. And a trillion in deficit spending this year. We are in serious trouble. And most of these morons just got reelected. I don’t know who I have more anger towards, the pols who screw things up or the sheeple who voted for their incumbant because of a few pieces of pork.
On one hand there’s too much cancer and, on the other hand, there’s not enough. I know, but I’m just saying what you’re thinking.
Senator Specter, should vote NO to the Union Card Check Law. No should know how any employee votes. Just like when we vote in May and November it is no one concern who we vote for. The same should applied to the vote for a union. If everyone known's how you vote then a lot of pressure will be put on the employee that does not want the union. This vote should remain prifate.