Comments on: Video: Union Officials at Rally Can’t Answer Simple Question About Card Check

By: frankstrategies

frankstrategies — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:59:13 +0000

I appreciate your comment. For the record, nobody paid me to produce this video, although I obviously have a point of view on this issue. Also, it seems to me that employers should be given an opportunity to explain why they think unionization would be detrimental, and that the final decision should be made through a secret ballot election. Finally, I take you at your word that you didn’t try to intimidate anybody in your union organizing days, but the former union organizers featured in this other video obviously didn’t have a problem with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1b2UtZ2S6Q

By: Will Cox

Will Cox — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:10:40 +0000

It seemed to me that your question was answered. I don’t know what big business interests are paying you but your anti-union stance surely comes from that sector. I worked as a union organizer. I am 5’6″ tall and weigh about 150 pounds, not exactly a threatening force as you think union organizers are. There are no intimidation tactics used to get employees to sign cards. The problem with the secret ballot (as explained by John Sweeney) is the time between the filing for an election and the actual election leaves between 2 to 6 months for the employer to run an aggressive anti-union campaign with employees required to go to anti-union seminars and rallies. I’m sure you understand that but your loyalty to big business and against the American worker won’t let you understand it.

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By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:07:00 +0000

This was a great opportunity to expose the phony justification for “card check,” but Frank’s poor interviewing skills muddy the impact of the interviews.

By: Always To The Right

Always To The Right — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:57:21 +0000

No Answers…

Video: Labor officials can’t explain why they need to dump the secret ballot

Ed Frank
got a chance to ask John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, a couple of
questions about the Employee Free Choice Act at a rally for the Card
Check……

By: Blue Collar Todd

Blue Collar Todd — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:44:46 +0000

Thanks for this video. At my job when the new class of trainees were done with our orientation, a number of union leaders came in. They had menacing looks on their faces and everyone signed up with the union, including me. After their support for Barack Obama and other anti-family actions, I have had enough and I am getting out.

By: Dear Sen. Lincoln: The AFL-CIO can’t answer on card check at The K. Ryan James blog

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:20:44 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, we find the excellent work performed by Ed Frank at Wednesday’s Big Union gathering where Mr. Frank could not get a straight answer about card [...]

By: Employee “Free Choice” Act « Grand Rants

Employee “Free Choice” Act « Grand Rants — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:19:35 +0000

[...] Ed Frank attended a rally held by organized labor in support of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, which as we all know, would open workers to a wide array of intimidation tactics by removing their right to a secret ballot. “At the rally, at least one worker claimed that 90% of his colleagues signed cards supporting a unionization election, but it turns out when workers cast their secret ballots, the pro-union forces only won by two votes. [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Labor officials can’t explain why they need to dump the secret ballot

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:35:09 +0000

[...] Ed Frank got a chance to ask John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, a couple of questions about the Employee Free Choice Act at a rally for the Card Check legislation yesterday, as well as another union official. The rally talked endlessly about how Card Check would protect workers and allow employees to form unions, but Ed never got an explanation of how the secret ballot manifests itself as an unfair labor practice. He didn’t get any clarification from his interviews, either: [...]