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I'm hoping that the workers of Maine will bolt from their Big Labor Bosses and vote for Collins and Summers. Once they realize that Tom Allen and Chellie Pingree support eliminating workers' right to a private ballot when voting to unionize, they will take a pass on the candidates who take them for granted because of union bosses with deep pockets. Susan Collins and Charlie Summers won't play politics with basic voting rights. Allen and Pingree, on the other hand, already are.

Anonymous1, imagine how the American political system would operate today if everybody you disagreed with was forced to shut up. You would be sitting pretty, but I doubt you would be on the Christmas card list of everybody else in the country.

But, you’re stubborn intolerance doesn’t surprise me. In fact, it’s typical of pawns of Big Labor. You’re like the child in the sandbox who kicks the other kids out because they want to build a sand castle instead of digging your hole. Or, to circle back to my original topic, a union thug who threatens and coerces workers into voting to unionize, regardless of whether or not that worker wants to.

Pay attention, PolitickerME readers. These are the type of people who support the Card Check legislation to eliminate workers’ right to a private ballot—the people who will be voting for Tom Allen and Chellie Pingree in November (with their own private ballot, I might add).

Allen's cosponsorship of H.R. 800 stinks for sure. I've called his office and expressed my opinion of in kinder, gentler terms...As for people in Maine being told what to do---what's the big deal? Both major parties are always telling us what to do. As individuals, we can do our homework and choose how to vote. I'd recommend Third Party, preferably Libertarian or Constitution.

Go to hell? Yikes! Maybe AnonymousEdge and Anonymous1 can carpool together to some anger management seminars. Remember the good old days when free thought and respect for differing opinions inspired intelligent conversations, not irrational contempt?

To accommodate our two fuming friends, perhaps Politicker should eliminate the comment function all together. Or better yet, we should just outlaw the internet…there is way too much individual expression and opposing points of view out there, anyway. We don’t want to anger our anonymous posters any more, do we?

But, before we go eliminating the World Wide Web to spare the feelings of our Big Labor buddies, remember that they are the type of people who will be looking over a worker’s shoulder making sure they sign a card to unionize.

You're a liar.

EFCA RETAINS WORKERS RIGHTS TO A PRIVATE BALLOT.

Maybe you and your organization should stop trolling comment boards and go back to smoking cigars with Richard Berman down in DC. You guys are scared sh*tless of this legislation because you won't be able to discriminate anymore.

The only tyranny is under the current law, where employers can subject employees to mandatory anti-union propaganda. Under EFCA, you'd get a hefty fine.

So stop lying to the people of Maine.

The Real Anonymous1 needs to take a quick look at their own pay stub. Maybe the people of Maine have gotten it right and are not going to put up with out of state money coming in to take their rights away. Like the people that pay you to scare Mainers into thinking that BIG corporations (which there are VERY VERY few of) are going to infringe on their rights. Which is absolute crap, why don't you take a real close look at the people you are talking to, and maybe try your garbage somewhere else.

We're tired of people like you moving to our state and trying to take away our way of life. We are people who pack town halls in the winter to hold town meetings, who come out 75% strong to vote in annual elections and big labor wants to throw us a bone with Card Check by offering or as you say preserving a right to secret ballot...isn't that a given? How many important votes outside of legislative bodies are held out in the open?

Your argument is crap, don't try to force feed us your talking points by making it seem like Unions are our best friends when they are trying to circumvent the democratic process by holding the hands of the legislators that they donated huge amounts of worker paid dues to get them elected in the first place.

Don't talk about "anti-union" propaganda when you know full well that "pro-union" propaganda isn't just propaganda; it is extreme tactics including destruction of property, coercion, bribery, intimidation and even in some cases assault...that in my book is NOT propaganda, it is illegal and this is what you will subject the people of Maine to if you try to elect people who want to unionize the entire state.

to your argument. Seriously, Card Check was deemed constitutional, as was slavery, segregation and keeping women away from the ballot boxes. Does it make it right?

EFCA eliminates any opposition to Unionizing. It squashes employEEs who may not want to unionize by allowing unions and their representatives to put an enormous amount of pressure on those who are against forming a union.

EFCA does not provide protection to employees who want to resist unionizing, it allows all of the protection to those wishing to Unionize. It allows for intimidation of employees.

Labor organizations should not have special rights to help employees form a union. There are no roadblocks so large that unions are impossible to form currently. What EFCA does is open the doors for unfair advantages to Big Labor to crush the interests of small business owners and the employees who may try to resist forming a union that is trying to take more money out of their hard earned paycheck week in and week out.

by the way, I am a 4th generation Mainer, with family coming from Italy where workers were treated so poorly that organized crime was the safest way to earn money...and yes, I too come from a family that has many members represented by unions.

George McGovern wants to protect the private-ballot vote to unionize.

"My Party Should Respect Secret Union Ballots"
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