Name ‘Free Choice’ doesn’t do act justice

Robert B. Elliott, Las Vegas

Monday, March 16, 2009 | 2:01 a.m.

Advocates of the Employee Free Choice Act should start using a more accurate descriptive moniker, post haste. As a union member for 30-plus years, I would call it the “Act to Limit Suppression by Employers and Union Busters of Employee Voting” or something along the lines of the “Anti-suppression of Union Voting Act.”

The ruse that is being used by the anti-union activists and anti-worker, pro-corporation toadies, which allege that card-check would take away choice or allow big union bosses to exploit workers, is Big Lie number 9,873.

Any member of Congress who has the gall to stand in front of a microphone and pretend he has the best interests of workers at heart when opposing this bill should be drummed out of office at the next opportunity (this is for Sen. John Ensign).

Strong unions are coming again, now. Big corporations are going to have to start sharing a tiny bit of their booty with the people who make it happen. The mistake of regarding corporations as “persons” legally will ultimately be corrected.

Better days are coming. Employees are not enemies of employers and the relationship need not be adversarial, if fairness is the objective. Workers are integral to any company’s success. Exploitation hurts everyone. The world is changing and “we” are “them” and “they” are “us.”