The recent passage of the Employee Free Choice Act was heralded as a victor for workers (if one considers eliminating their right to a secret-ballot vote on union representation to be a victory for free choice. Well, here's what unionists do if a worker exercises a free choice they don't like.

Labor problems at The Toledo Blade in Ohio hit a new level with a replacement worker relating that his car was intentionally torched last night while he was on the job about 10:30 behind the Toledo Newsprint Trucking Company. "It's going a little further than they need to go," Pete Thayer told a local TV station.

You see, what has happened here is that the paper has decided that it doesn't want to pay what the union demands, and so it has offered a wage it sees as reasonable and allowed workers the free choice to accept it or not -- something that Pete Thayer did. In response, a union thug vandalized and torched his car.

And if you want some evidence that acts of violence and intimidation are acceptable to union thugs, you simply need to take a look at the response of the spokesthug for one of the unions.

Larry Vellequette, a spokesman for the Toledo Council of Newspaper Unions, denied that any of his members played a role in the incident. "I'm pretty sure it wasn't us," he told E&P. "I know that we have been seven months without a single incident and why they would start now makes no sense." He added that, "the real crime here is the Blade lockout."

"Pretty sure" that the act of violence and intimidation against a worker making a free choice wasn't the union's work -- that speaks volumes. he can't deny that such acts are part of the unionist's bag of dirty tricks -- or that such acts are not from time to time sanctioned by the union. Indeed, he doesn't even see this as particularly being a criminal act -- he views the unwillingness of the Toledo Blade to knuckle under to union demands and Thayer's willingness to take a job at the wage offered by an employer as being the "real crime". Talk about your inverted value system!

Its time for us to implement an amendment to the Employee Free Choice Act to go along with the recent removal of the right to a secret ballot on union recognition. Employers should have every circulate "non-union"cards among their employees, and when a majority of workers have signed them, derecognition of the union should be automatic -- just like recognition is when a majority signs union cards. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, isn't it?

H/T GM's Corner

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