Republican Senators Join Fight To Protect Workers’ Rights (from www.scsenategop.com)
January 22nd, 2009
Senator Ryberg: “An individual’s vote must be sacred and should not have to subject him to intimidation and harassment.”
Columbia, SC – January 22, 2009 – During a time when unions have forced the Big Three near bankruptcy and American taxpayers are bailing them out, Congressional Democrats are pushing a plan to grow unionization across the nation. Last week South Carolina Representative Eric Bedingfield filed a plan to protect South Carolina’s workers from union intimidation and today South Carolina’s Republican Senators joined the fight.
Deceptively named the “Employee Free Choice Act,” the liberal plan has been more appropriately dubbed the “Secret Ballot Elimination Act” by US Senator Jim DeMint. The legislation would strip workers of their right to vote for unionization by secret ballot, opening them up to what State Senator Greg Ryberg calls “intimidation and harassment” by unions.
“Whether it is to elect a president or vote one’s preference on union organizing, the sanctity of the ballot box is critical,” Senator Ryberg said. “An individual’s vote must be sacred and should not have to subject him to intimidation and harassment.” Ryberg is chairman of the Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee in the State Senate.
SC Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler and Majority Whip Danny Verdin are the primary sponsors of the Senate bill.
“We’ve seen what happens when unions control the economy. It’s called Detroit. And we’ve seen what happens when unions fail. Congress bails them out on the backs of hardworking taxpayers. South Carolina must continue to be a right-to-work state and we must protect our workers’ rights during this tough economic crisis,” Peeler said.
The legislation will be filed on Tuesday and protects workers’ rights through an amendment to the SC Constitution stating, “To preserve and protect the fundamental right of individuals to vote by secret ballot, where local, state, or federal law requires elections for public office or ballot measures, or requires designations or authorizations for employee representation, the right of individuals to vote by secret ballot is guaranteed.”
Senate Sponsors include:
Majority Leader Harvey Peeler
Majority Whip Danny Verdin
President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell
Senator Greg Ryberg
Senator Larry Martin
Senator Paul Campbell
Senator Wes Hayes
Senator Lee Bright
Senator Larry Grooms
Senator Mike Rose
Senator Mike Fair
Senator Ronnie Cromer
Senator Kevin Bryant
Senator Shane Martin
Hey, idiot,
Did you notice that ‘Detroit’ has been making cars that suck? Cars that are too big and expensive to run and that have lousy service records? People don’t buy Toyotas becuse they’re cheaper because they’re not. They buy Toyotas because they’re better cars. Doesn’t have one fool thing to do with the unions. It has to do with management. And ‘right to work’ is just another name for keeping niggers out of the shop. Those days are past. You ever wonder why a southern worker gets half what a Detroit worker does for the same job? Because of no union to bargain for him. And redneck legislators like you who want to take money from the companies for their re-election and screw the worker.
You are one large, large moron. Detroit workers make twice as much because of their union. Detroit cars cost at least $2500 more than their non-Detroit counterparts. People don’t buy their cars. The view of the world is much more clear when you can see more than the inside of your colon.
That’s right. You get a better can from Toyota or Honda. A more economical, more reliable car. So the problem is the car, caused by the management decisions of design, size and quality. And the more we can do to extend union membership, the better off the communities we live in will be. Workers spend the money that keeps the economy going. Shipping that money off to Tokyo instead of into our worker’s pockets makes no sense. I agree completely.
Who’s on first?