Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

Big Labor wants what they bought and paid for.

America’s unions gave the Democrats 52 million dollars in their effort to buy the Congress and White House. True to their “We come first; to hell with the rest of you…” attitude now they want their payback.

Paying Big Labor back is high on the list of the Democrat’s “to do list” so we will soon see passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Commonly known as the “card check” system of forcing non-unionized private businesses into union membership, it would strong arm virtually all American workers into union membership.

American workers don’t want to unionize. Currently less than 10% of privately employed workers are unionized. When last surveyed, just 13% of non-union workers were “ definitely in” should they be offered a vote on unionizing their job.

To stop its slide into non-existence, Big Labor and the Democrats have developed this plan to intimidate non-union workers into joining them and paying them and the Democrats for the “privilege” of their continued employment. They want the Democrats to forcibly do what they can not do in a free labor market.

EFCA will force “open and free” opportunities for non-union workers to say “Yes” or “No” to unionization under the watchful and intimidating eyes of union thugs.

With EFCA in place Big Labor will go after Wal-Mart. None of Wal-Mart’s 7000 stores is unionized. Its 2 million workers don’t pay union “dues.”

Wal-Mart makes life better, if it goes union we all lose, but that means nothing to unions.

Wal-Mart’s marketing strategies have saved Americans 263 billion, cutting food prices 9.1% and general consumer prices 4.2% since 1985. Since 2006 they have provided the poor and elderly $4.00 prescriptions.

All of these savings will continue under unionization, but they will be diverted to union bosses and Democrats when EFCA comes in.

The obvious purpose of EFCA is to increase union membership, but the real purpose is to extort money from workers and split it with the Democrats. We have laws to stop this, but of course Democrats don’t follow laws they don’t like so our only option is to fight EFCA and kill it now.