This is Republican crap. The Employee Free Choice Act is designed to give employees a collective voice to bargain with companies who have proven themselves to be opportunistic and greedy in their pursuit of profits. Everyone, including unions, are for healthy, profitable companies. The Employee Free Choice Act just makes it easier for workers to form unions so they’re not relegated to live in poverty while management lives in excess.
Kinder should spend his time trying to save the bike race, something everybody can get behind, instead of touting this union bashing garbage.

When Kinder tried to cultivate Black voters in St. Louis last Spring he stated:
“Families and individuals without healthcare are at risk each day. Solutions for many of their problems is offering affordable healthcare through private sector partnerships”.

Well, that means Kinder obviously opposes public healthcare.

Now he tours the Black Communities with the message…”If you get sick, you’re on your own. Don’t expect me to help with that “private sector” crap.

Union members are 67% more likely to have employer negotiated healthcare benefits.

more baloney from someone who hasn’t done any manual labor. this end around by the republicans is just a cover up and spin trying to keep things in their favor by denying access to workers by the unions. what a decietful play on words”save our secret ballot”. what a crock. “our” secret ballot. yeah, buddy. ole kinder and us have got to stick together on this. them scarey ole unions might want health care, living wage, safety concerns and all that un-business stuff.

I am getting so sick of the union pukes on this site. It’s never the unions it’s always buinesses fault. Give me a break nothing is one sided like your “shop steward” tells you. By the way you should all be afraid once the secret ballot is removed from anything! If the secret ballot is such a horrible thing why did the unions push for it decades ago to raise union memberships? Now numbers are dropping so they have to change the rules.

Good for Kinder and Loudon. My vote, for or against unionization (or during any other election for that matter) should be kept private. The one place I should never feel intimidated is in the voting booth.

If the “so-called” secret ballot is so important to these anti-union hoods, which is still easily available through EFCA, why not have free elections with the secret ballot process? The employers force employees to attend secret closed meetings where their anti-union rhetoric is spewed and threats of dislocating their workers is preached.

If Kinder, and his failed side-kick Loudon want a fair process, let the workers attend a series of forums where the union and management can openly debate the merits. Then the workers can vote a secret ballot after a fair and honest discussion….Isn’t that what our Founding Fathers intended when they formed our democracy Mr. Kinder? Isn’t that how we decided to elect you?

These “anti-worker” politicians should stop kissing the butts at the Chamber of Commerce under the pretense of helping working families.

Wage disparity nearly tripled under Bush and the Republicans since 2001.
Nearly 65% of workers polled by Time Magazine would favor a union if given a fair opportunity….The Save Our Secret Ballot initiative is as misleading as the 1978 “Right to Work” initiative which failed miserable under a secret ballot….

Let’s put EFCA on the Missouri ballot if you want a true representation of the peoples will…..We’ll show the Republican country-club set the real power of a secret ballot.

Instead, the Missouri Republicans will continue to try to exempt this state if Obama ever signs EFCA into law….So much for Republicans respecting majority rule under a secret ballot.

The reason unions want to get rid of secret ballots is so that they can use intimidation and peer pressure, if not outright violence, against individuals not wishing to unionize. If a secret ballot is good enough for electing the president, it’s good enough for unionizing. I hope that Kinder is successful on this issue and keeping the Tour of Missouri.

It is the unions that are bankrupting this country. They want more and more money and who do you think pays the ultimate price–the consumer. There is no reason autoworkers should be making $80.00 an hour. ANother example of a union being screwed up is the union at Busch Stadium for the concession stands; they represent the members about as much as an aardvark. Further the management practices reverse discrimination and discrimination against thos over 50 years old. THe management keeps paying off these investigators and the discrimination goes on and on and on

Just to clarify one thing to my pro and anti union friends. The Employee Free Choice Act does not eliminate the secret ballot. Rather it allows the employees to choose how they form their union. They can use a majority sign up process or can choose to have an election where a secret ballot will be used. All the Employee Free Choice Act would do is give the employees, not the employer, the choice. And seeing as how a union is an organization of employees, shouldn’t they have that choice?

As far as what Kinder and Loudon are doing. The Free Choice Act, if passed, would be federal law. No ballot proposal or Missouri law can superseed federal law. So Missourians might ask why their elected offical, Mr. Kinder, is spending all this time and money talking about something that he does not actually have any control over. This is just politics and is a huge waste of money and effort by Republicans to prove just how anti worker they really are.

Big Tall Dud….
The unions are bankrupting this country?
The unions represent 7% of the private workforce. Union wages are pumped back into the economy…unlike Victorian Masterpieces.

In 2003, Alice Walton bought a $78 million dollar Rembrandt. Just one of many in her collections which are proudly displayed in 14 seperate residences. Five Waltons consistantly make the Forbes Top Ten….In 2003, your tax dollars were used to pay $850 million in subsidized healthcare costs to Alice Walton’s employees.
That’s equal to 11 Rembrandts for Ms Walton, in exchange for an $850 million dollar debt passed to your children.

Who the hell needs unions?
Your kids.

Now, tell us again…How’s bankrupting this country.