Union Dues?

by Salena Zito - December 6th, 2008 - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Today, if a union organizer goes into a workplace and gets 30 percent of the employees to sign a “union interest” card, an election is ordered by the National Labor Relations Board. A secret-ballot vote is held six weeks later, giving both union and employer time to lobby the workers.

Under card-check, not so much: If a majority of employees sign a union card, then the union becomes the bargaining unit. No more six-week campaigns, no more elections. It’s a done deal; you’re essentially a union shop.

Noted later in the article is concern about "the arbitration portion of the act which puts a government bureaucrat in charge of determining company contracts with workers." Does anyone think that there will be fair negotiation if an ACORN representative of socialism is appointed the arbitrator and he is determined to provide lifetime employment, say like the auto companies are burdened with, for all employees?

This is not union organizing. This is government dictated socialism through the guise of union organizing.