Scare Tactics and the Employee Free Choice Act

by: Tim Tagaris

Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 15:42


(Welcome back, me! Thanks to Chris for allowing me a chance to post about the Employee Free Choice Act.)

"A firestorm bordering on Armageddon." "Nuclear war." "Ready to riot in the street." "They should be shot." "Pro-slavery."

For more than a year, corporate groups have been spreading lies and misinformation about the Employee Free Choice Act, which would let workers rather then employers decide how they want to organize. They've gone from arguing against this legislation on the merits to, in some cases, all-out doomsday predictions "of the demise of civilization" and equating it to "Radical Islam."

How about a little sanity?
Tim Tagaris :: Scare Tactics and the Employee Free Choice Act
They don't just want Obama to fail. They want working people who want a union to fail -- no matter how large of a majority in their workplace say they want to have a voice on the job. So they're pulling out everything they've got. No exaggeration too outrageous, no distortion too deceiving.

An escalating online organizing effort has already begun. The right-wing has already started mobilizing against the Employee Free Choice Act (get your free Nintendo Wii today!)

Take a minute to click here and send this video to your friends and family.  

Once you've done that, you can learn more about the Employee Free Choice Act at SEIU.org/EmployeeFreeChoice

Thanks again for listening.

Tim

Disclaimer: I am proud to be at SEIU with a great team of folks building a new internet department that provides members and non-members alike meaningful opportunities to participate

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Susan Collins (4.00 / 1)
Last summer "independent groups" ran virtually non-stop (and mostly unintelligible) ads blasting Tom Allen for supporting EFCA and lauding Susan Collins.  The ads said Collins supported a secret ballot and shadily tried to tar Allen with being allied with the Mafia (including using an actor from "The Sopranos.")

I must have seen the ad 6 or 8 times before I figured they were talking about card check.  All that, btw, in a summer weekend in Maine.

Yeah (4.00 / 1)
They ran ads all last year.  The good news is, after that kind of penetration, Tom Allen was the only candidate that lost.  They ran them in VA, CO, and a handful of other states.  Our research showed us that the ads did not move voters.

There is a lot of money in anti-Employee Free Choice campaigns.  You haven't seen the last of the ads.

Tim

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Allen didn't lose because of those ads though ... (0.00 / 0)
Maine just doesn't kick out encumbents .. for starters
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agreed (4.00 / 1)
just saying, he is the only one that lost.
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this video (0.00 / 0)
is so funny, looks like its right out of the colbert show, well done,  

whatever you think people owe you, that is what you owe people
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