-By Warner Todd Huston
Looks like the union thugs in Colorado are getting a bit worried that the Center for Union Facts TV ads are making people aware of the sham the unions are trying to perpetrate on Coloradans with their opposition to Amendment 47.
Even though TV 9 News’ report leans in favor of the unions, the story does give TCUF a little space to layout some of their issues.
The ads running on stations around Denver, including 9NEWS, are paid for by the Center for Union Facts. It’s an organization founded more than two years ago because “labor bosses were going unchallenged,” said spokesman Tim Miller. “The commercials are our way to educate the public about the mismanagement of union dues.”
Amendment 47 is a hot button issue for Colorado and if passed would prevent unions from collecting mandatory dues from people that don’t want to join the union.
The Governor and Senator Salazar are pretending to sound “moderate” on the issue by telling both sides to back down.
Political leaders like Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colorado), Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, and Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colorado) have asked both sides to back down, to respect Colorado’s current “Labor Peace Act,” which was passed by state lawmakers in 1943. It requires a special employee vote before a workplace can become unionized.
But, here is why they are not really telling the truth to the people of Colorado by pretending to sound like they want both side to “back down.”
The “special votes” the two Democrat pols are saying is already assured by law would be taken over by card-check voting as far as these two are concerned. And card-check voting is anti-democratic and pro-union in the extreme.
With card-check voting, employees would no longer have the ages old practice of the secret ballot that is the standard voter protection in all true democratic elections. With the card-check system these two Democratic Party hacks want, the employee would have to publicly announce to all his fellows what his vote is for it to count. The voter would not be protected by anonymity so that he can feel safe to vote his conscience. Therefore, the employee would be open to pressure from union thugs to vote THEIR way instead of his way. There is nothing whatever democratic about the card-check voting system and THAT is what these two party hacks want to institute. And that is why their claim to be telling both side to back down is a lie. They only want the anti-union side to be shut down.
Let’s hope Amendment 47 passes in Colorado.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston