Joel Dysktra leading the charge against Employee Card Check. We know how this going to end.
l3wis Wonder if he grew his ‘working man’s mustache back?
Opponents of card check legislation want to protect their wallets, not anyone’s right to vote on union elections, said union officials in Rapid City on Thursday.
“They’re dead set against it, because it takes money out of their pocket, it’s that simple,” said Mark Anderson, president and financial secretary of the South Dakota State Federation of Labor AFL-CIO. “It’s simply an issue of money — who gets it, who keeps it.”
Mark, Mark, Mark. Really. Are you saying some South Dakota business owners are money hungry greedy bastards that don’t want to pay their workers a fair wage? Where would you get an idea like that? It’s not like we rate dead last in wages in this country or that South Dakotans have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet. Obviously this has nothing to do with it.
Anderson said opponents often latch onto the secret ballot issue to claim the card check method is undemocratic.
“So when you hear all the hoopla, from the employers’ side and the opponents, I think that’s a bald-faced lie,”
Are you calling South Dakota Neo-cons liars? Get out. Now go get your magic markers and help me make a Tea Party sign that says, “Kill Socialism – Buy Guns.”
One petition organizer, former U.S. Senate candidate Joel Dykstra of Canton, told The Associated Press that the South Dakota ballot proposal is the same as efforts in other states and is affiliated with the national Save Our Secret Ballot organization.
“We’re not anti-union. We just believe employees should have the right to select their representation by secret ballot,” Dykstra said.
Yeah Joel, I believe you, because if anyone has credibility in the business and political realm, it’s you . . .
It’s important to increase union membership, because unions are responsible for the creation of the middle class, Anderson said. As unions have weakened over the last several decades, the gap between the rich and poor in the country has grown larger, he said, and the middle class has disappeared.
And that’s just the way they like it.
