June 21, 2007

On the "Orwellian-titled" Employee Free Choice Act, which would abolish employees' rights to a secret ballot on whether or not to accept union representation:

Failing unions, like failing industries, turn to government for protection in the form of coercion. Failing industries have traditionally sought corporate welfare in the form of tariffs (coercion of consumers). Unions seek laws to confer what their persuasiveness cannot convince people to consent to.