Wal-Mart management is fighting back against unions. Good for them.
There is nothing so corrosive to individualism and self-reliance than a union. And do they really care about workers? That’s debatable. A man I once worked for had 3,000 non-union employees. He fought union goons every step of the way and they never made any headway in his factory. The defining moment came when he bodily threw a union stooge out of his office after the man said, “Hey, all we want is the dues checkoff.”
And now Congress is considering the execrable Employee Free Choice Act, the 1984-ishly named bill that would destroy secret ballots in union votes. Keep an eye on that bill. Any North Carolina member of Congress who would support that has no business being in any elective office.
Jim Lindgren asks the pertinent question:
The Act not only would allow unionization without secret ballot elections, but also would provide for mandatory arbitration on first contracts. I have never understood where Congress acquired the power to order people to enter into contracts that they don’t want to sign.
