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Don’t Be Fooled: ‘SOS Ballot’ Another Corporate Front Group |
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Another day, another shady front group trying to confuse and mislead workers. This time, a new group calling itself “SOS Ballot” is waging an under-the-radar state-level campaign to lock in corporate domination and prevent workers from exercising the freedom to bargain for a better life.
In five states—Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, Arkansas and Utah—SOS Ballot is gathering signatures, hoping to put initiatives on the ballot to prevent workers from opting to form unions through majority sign-up.
“SOS Ballot” is yet another misleadingly named corporate front group, with a secret funding base, aimed at keeping a firm corporate lock on workers and their ability to form unions and bargain.
Who’s behind it? A glimpse at their priorities: The group is chaired, according to its website, by former U.S. Rep. Ernie Istook (R-Okla.). Istook had a consistently anti-worker voting record in Congress, voting to block collective bargaining rights, eliminate overtime and block the enforcement of workplace safety and mine safety rules. The big-money donors behind this effort are hoping that hiding behind a clever name will convince us that this time, they only have workers’ best interests at heart.
Right.
Why are anti-worker groups putting in all this time, money and machination? Because they’re panicked that, if enacted, the Employee Free Choice Act would reform the process and put the freedom to choose to form a union in the hands of workers, not bosses. They’re scared the new Congress and president will act to restore the balance of power in the workplace, ending corporations’ ability to crush workers’ freedom to bargain for better pay, benefits and treatment.
What the “SOS Ballot” initiatives would protect is the company’s power to interfere in the process and use intimidation, delay and disinformation to prevent workers from deciding for themselves whether to form a union and bargain for better treatment in the workplace.
Don’t be fooled: These are the same big-money corporate shills that oppose every effort to improve the pay, benefits, safety and dignity of workers.
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Education of the workers is what is needed in this or what ever approach they try next to scare people into believing something that is not.