Well the American Chavistas are at it again.
The unions recently sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner asking him to silence any company receiving bailout money from campaigning against the Employee Free Choice Act. This act eliminates the secret ballot form of voting for employees voting whether or not to unionize. Without a secret ballot, the union people can intimidate others into signing union cards.
The very act of an outside organization asking a government official to use his power to silence its opposition is a very frightening precedent. As far as I know the Treasury Secretary has ignored the request, but the potential is not good.
The unions also are responsible for the language put in the stimulus bill to stop the policy to allow Mexican trucks to deliver goods into the U.S. which Mexico said is a violation of the NAFTA trade agreement. Mexico has retaliated. Thanks to the unions the word of the American government is no longer trustworthy and now we have a trade war. Just what we need in the middle of a depression.
I guess the unions are going to do for the U.S. what they have done for education and the car manufacturers.
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