Obama's Union Connection Targeting Businesses in New York State

We knew it would only be a matter of time before the unions would make their first move to control all means of production in the country. Given the amount of support that the unions gave Obama during the election process, it stands to reason that they will expect something in return, namely the "card check" proposal. This a blank check to the unions to organize anywhere and anybody.

As of now, union participation among workers in this country is at an all time low of less than 12% and falling. So with the card check proposal that Obama has promised the unions, the unions won't need a secret vote to organize any business they want. What a great way for the unions to get back into power.

How this works, when the union wants to organize an industry, they go to homes of workers and have them sign the card while several members of the union committee stand close to the kids and wife. This tactic was used in the old days to convince people to vote the right way in secret ballots.

Of course, in the old days they came right out and threatened the workers with violence and or their families if they didn't vote the right way. Union meetings today, I'm told, in many cases by members, were and are just throw backs to the old days. Different tactics maybe but looking for the same results. The threats and the intimidation are still there.

This is a total break down of Democracy - this is not how this country was founded. But then it's not about Democracy or freedom to chose, it's about getting and keeping power. Nothing else matters to these people - it's who they are and it's who Barack Obama is. This is Chicago politics on a national scale.

Keep the faith - the battle is joined.

VIGILANTE LABOR 'JUSTICE'
New York Post February 2, 2009

Gov. Paterson, distracted by the Caroline Kennedy debacle and other pressures, may not fully realize that his Labor Department is deputizing vigilantes to treat honest businessmen like horse thieves in the Old West. That is, to hang 'em high.

A new pilot program announced last week will effectively sign up activist unions and "community organizations" (think ACORN) to sniff out alleged violations of labor law by employers. One needn't have lived in New York very long to understand where /that/ presently will lead: kangaroo-court proceedings against companies that refuse to buckle under to activist pressure. And, probably, worse.

Under the program, dubbed New York Wage Watch, six groups in New York City and Long Island - including several union locals and an activist outfit called Make the Road New York - will get official sanction from the state to "educate" workers and employers about state labor law.They'll also have an expedited line to the Labor Department's enforcement arm to report any violations they encounter.

The department touts the program as a creative way to respond to violations that otherwise would have fallen into the cracks. It's /creative/, all right. No reasonable person objects to state efforts to fairly, fully enforce the law. But empowering interest groups between the state and the citizen can quickly distort the law's purpose. After all, the organizations the Labor Department has teamed up with are /hardly/ disinterested parties.

Indeed, the arrangement is an open invitation for the unions to use their semi-official stature to extra-legally extend their reach into targeted businesses. Assurances from the Labor Department that it will be responsive to complaints from businesses are hardly reassuring. After all, Make the Road New York is closely allied with community-organizing behemoth ACORN - which is notorious for shaking down banks, developers and other businesses that even gently resist its brand of "activism."

Imagine the pressure such groups could bring to bear on law-abiding businesses with simply a hint of calling down a full-fledged state investigation.Imagine the potential for old-fashioned cash-on-the-barrelhead corruption.The program is slated to last six months - after which, presumably, the department would look to bring even more groups on board.But there's no reason to wait.Gov. Paterson needs to put a stop to this foolishness /now/