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• • 02 Feb 09
  • 2:31 pm

  I support the Employee Free Choice Act. As a person who has experienced the illegal tactics of union busting corporate America, I feel the EFCA is long over due. My fear is that it is not enough and that it will do little to help workers in strong anti union right to work states such as Tennessee. The word union is a dirty word in much of the south. The politicians and corporate mogals have done an excellant job in their propaganda campaign against unions here in the south. I hope that the laws built around the EFCA and the NLRA …

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• • 02 Feb 09
  • 8:18 pm

  The reasons behind adopting the EFCA are to allow employees who wish to form a union do so without the intimidation of the employer and their anti union lawyers. There is nothing fair or just about the current system. The EFCA allows for the employees to choose a secret ballot election if they choose. It also allows employees to meet and discuss and elect a union with a reduced intimidation campaign at the hands of their employer. If corporate America would only play by the rules none of this would be necessary. I agree with an employee’s right to say no …

  Posted to Ready to Rumble

• • 08 Feb 09
  • 7:13 am

  Way to go workers of smithfield. I have not purchased products of smithfield for nearly a year now since I became aware of the workers fight while visiting DC last year. I hope this is only the start in North Carolina and other Right to Fire and intimidate states, opps I mean right to work states. Loyal union supporter. Michael Chapman

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