The Employee Not-Free Coercion Act

I just finished writing to Louisiana's and Arkansas's senators concerning the abominable Employee Free Choice Act. We own property in both states and, as taxpayers in both states, I believe we are entitled to solicit the officials elected to represent our interests in both states. (I don't have an actual address for the New Mexico property. Rats.).

This bill is really bad news. Here's what I said to the folks on the Hill (adjusted to fit the appropriate state):

Please vote against the Employee Free Choice Act.

This is one of the worst bills to be introduced in Congress in years, and that's really saying something. And who came up with the title of this Bill? There's nothing "Free" about it.

Louisiana is a Right to Work state; it has been forever. More simply stated: Louisiana citizens believe that the choice whether to unionize -- or to join a union -- belongs to the individual, not the coercive collective. The INDIVIDUAL'S choice is expressed through his vote.

Extant federal law, the NLRA, more than adequately provides for free, fair, secret-ballot elections, closely supervised by the NLRB, for both unionization and representation. It ain't broke -- don't try to fix it.

The vote -- by secret ballot -- is among the most sacrosanct civil rights granted us by the Founders (revolutionaries, by the way, who sacrificed all for their -- and our -- right to vote) and our Constitution. Its loss would portend the downfall of our Republic. Don't be seduced onto the slippery slope that threatens to erode our individual liberties even more than they've been traumatized already.

I implore you to think long and hard.

Preserve the integrity of the secret ballot and vote against the Employee Free Choice Act.

Hopefully, someone's home to listen.