Carrie Lukas' recent letter included several inaccuracies about the Employee Free Choice Act that demand correction ["Unions are fine, but vote should be free," March 18].
Ms. Lukas claims that the act would strip workers of their right to a secret ballot. That is not true.
What the bill does is give the workers--rather than the bosses--the choice of how they want to form a union.
It is difficult to argue against common sense, so sometimes making stuff up
Also, the notion that a union election is similar to
First off, one out of four times, a union supporter is illegally fired during a union election. When was the last time someone at your place of employment was fired for supporting a candidate?
The point is that opponents of the bill will do anything to avoid talking about what has happened
Let's face it, the middle class is almost gone. Wages have been stagnant for 25 years during a time when the price of everything--food, gas, college, and clothing--has skyrocketed.
People are living paycheck to paycheck, and too many rely on credit to keep up.
We've hit a breaking point. The only way to get out of this crisis is to let workers band together to bargain for the wages and benefits they deserve.
"Benefits" has become a foreign word to too many people. Recent generations have seen secure pensions traded in for risky 401(k)s, and 47 million people are living without health care.
Why is it that we give Wall Street bandits free rein, large bonuses, and little or no regulation to destroy our economy, but when it's time to give average workers a shot to make it, that's too much to ask?
Mark A. Morris
Stafford
The writer is president, Fredericksburg/Battlefield Area Local,