Employee Free Choice: Minnesota’s Coleman Doesn’t Get It

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/05/15/employee-free-choice-minnesotas-coleman-doesnt-get-it/

Employee Free Choice: Minnesota’s Coleman Doesn’t Get It

by Mike Hall, May 15, 2007

No matter how hard opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act try or how many times they read the legislation (H.R. 800 and S. 1041), they will never find anywhere in the bill anything that bans workers from voting on whether or not they want to join a union.


Minnesota union members ask Sen. Norm Colemen (R) to back the Employee Free Choice Act. Colemen parrots opponents’ false claims.

But that hasn’t stopped anti-worker groups from ginning up a propaganda machine that spreads distortions and lies about what the bill does. Diane O’Brien, Minnesota AFL-CIO communications director, sends us the latest example.

Union members intercepted Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman (R) as he headed for a speaking engagement at the Humphrey Institute on the University of Minnesota campus Monday. When the workers asked Sen. Coleman to support the Employee Free Choice Act, the senator said he could not support the proposed law, which would strengthen workers’ rights to form and join unions.

Minnesota AFL-CIO Mobilizing and Organizing Director Candace Lund said that Coleman’s stance is based on a “deliberate misunderstanding of the bill.” She explains that the law would allow workers to choose a secret-ballot election or a majority sign-up process when deciding on a union. Business groups—and Sen. Coleman—claim the bill would ban the elections. Not true.

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[dflprincess]

1. The only thing that weasel gets

are instructions from Bushco.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Its those Deceptive Pubs spinning BS into our lives...The GOP is SO FUll of CRAP

its pathetic...