Read the comments at the end.

Under what article of the Constitution does Congress gain the power to force businesses to deal with labor unions?

Just asking.

The UFCW organizer and their president admitted the plan is “win or destroy.”

UFCW organizer Joe Crump described the UFCW’s strategy as a “win-or-destroy-business” mentality. In a recent, published article, Crump said organizing with the National Labor Relations Board means putting enough pressure on employers, costing enough time, energy and money to either eliminate them or get them to surrender to the union. UFCW President Doug Dority, concurred, stating in a public meeting that the UFCW “must reduce these [non-union] chains’ market share…or we must put them out of business. There is no other option.”

Sounds like the mob.

is a real problem, especially where you have a Democrat government that will use the government’s power politically – something Republicans don’t know how to do.

If you have a Democrat government, OSHA ONLY goes to the non-union and Republican owned businesses. The Public Health and Environmental Quality Agencies ONLY go to the non-union and Republican owned businesses. When they get a better grip on a state or city, the game becomes that these agencies will come to see you if you don’t start giving them money. Then the cops start shaking down all the various criminal enterprises, e.g., gambling, prostitution, and, especially, drug dealing; give the right people money or you’re busted. And before long you’re living in Illinois, New York, New Jersey, or Taxachuesetts.

As a conservative in Tucson, I’ve become a regular reader of EspressoPundit, which is probably Arizona’s best conservative blog on state affairs. The proprietor is a former AZ state legislator.

According to Espresson, Eddie Basha has built a statewide rep for being pretty liberal. Here’s Basha’s opinion on Wal-Mart, when he felt they were undercutting him on prices:

“I call it the economic holocaust,” Basha, chief executive of Bashas’, the state’s largest homegrown supermarket chain, said in an interview with The Arizona Republic. “It’s no different than what the Nazis did in World War II. It’s a blitzkrieg. They are doing economically what the Nazis did militaristically.”

Espresso notes that the Anti Defamation League gave Basha a pass on that remerk, because he’s liberal. (Sorry, but I can’t link to the exact EspressoPundit post on this subject—just the site itself. The article in question is titled “Once Upon A Time”)

Here’s what EspressoPundit wrote at the time:

There was no firestorm, no editorials, no calls to apologize or threatened boycotts, not one Republic columnist suggested that this statement by a former Democratic Gubernatorial nominee was offensive. It ended there, because years of advocacy of Liberal Democratic causes have made Eddie Basha a “great champion for justice” and therefore immune to media criticism for perhaps the most outrageous public comment ever spoken by a modern public official.

Yes, you read that right—Basha was AZ’s Democratic nominee for Governor in 2004

FYI…

I checked the most recent comments… And it was great…. You see people fight back. I am rooting for success of non-union folks….

Here is one…..

“I work at Bashas and have actually had union employees come to my house trying to get me to join. They will also stand on each side of the time clock and try to intimidate me into joining. What’s next? The threat of a car bomb? Will I find a horse’s head in my bed?

Unions are no better than the Mafia. I will never ever join!
I am paid as well at Bashas as some of my friends are at Safeway. And our benefits and days off are actually better!”

Here comes one pro-union scum….

I suppose that when corporate executives received about 7 to 8 times the worker wage some of this may be true. However now it is not uncommon for CEO’s to get 400 to 500 times worker wages. Corporate profit on the back of its workers does not much for the American middle class, which was, by the way created by organized labor. Why all of the sympathy for the corporation—I just don’t understand why it is so wrong to organize to get fair compensation for the labor and services provided by employees. Yep all the sympathy for the CEO and screw the grunts!

And here comes the response….

You are not their business partner. You are their employee. If the board wants to compensate the CEO with 500 times your wage, and you have an issue with this, then best you get yourself enrolled at ASU’s WP Carey Business School, and quick.

You are not entitled to “become” their business partner by banding together and forcing them to pay you more. Like others have said, look at what it did for the UAW. It’s putting them all out of work, and it is completely destroying the greatest industry America has ever had.

Man you found a goldmine….

…destroys the local competition, or the unions do.

Here is the employees who are being intimidated. They have exercised their right to freedom of association (which has the right to not associate) by rejecting the unions. The unions don’t like that. They wish to remove the employees constitutional rights in order to feather their own nests. Guess how much the union head makes a year?

Even if the employer is a jerk, the employees still ahve their rights. If the employer is a jerk, the free market will deal with it.

Yet, the Right is accused of destroying the Constitution.

that if you make friends with the crocodile, the crocodile wll most likely repay you by…eating you last!

It’s a bit…no. a lot…harder for me to muster sympathy for Bashas, after hearing about his shenanigans a while back.

Who knows…maybe he’s earned his lesson. I’ll be watching the local media…plus Espresso Pundit…to see how Basha responds.

… Maybe we can focus on stopping card check. Union thugs control my neighborhood and it makes me sick. These tactics are not as uncommon as you may think. Even worse, they employ the same tactics during elections.

Yeah, I get it. Those nasty little RINOS voted for the stimulus bill. Boo hoo. Its done. We need to corral every single vote to stop card check even Snowe, Collins and Specter. This is too important.

And we to focus on stopping the millions on new loyal Demcoratic votes that will come with amnesty.

Broken glass for eighteen months.

I’m not one to advocate “winning by losing”, and I certainly wouldn’t want to experiment with getting rid of the secret ballot for unionization. That being said, if employees were getting harassed at the workplace on a regular basis around the country, I could see a groundswell of the”working class” running into Republicans’ arms. Once people get a taste of Union thuggery, they usually become VERY anti-Union, I’ve seen it happen with friends and family.

…all I can say is, “I want my $12.50/week in union dues back.”

I love that large-chain grocery store for one of the non-union home improvement centers; where I was paid more, was offered health and other benefits almost immediately (6 month wait at the grocery), the bene’s were better and I didn’t lose 3-6% of my paycheck every week.

I’m so glad I’m now an exempt employee (and can pay my union dues directly to the government–oh, wait, those are “taxes”).

That is all.

If the unions had not contributed so much of the members’ funds to the Obama campaign, the union situation would not exist. Unions are the reason the cost of living is so high along with a great deal of what has been wrong with our society since their inception. The high wages being forced on the business world are causing many businesses to go under. Union members don’t have to work hard to demand high wages, if they belong to the union they are paid at the same rate as someone who is working hard. The hard worker sees this and realizes if he gets paid the same as the slow, indifferent worker, why should he work so hard. Less is produced so more must be charged for what is produced or the business will go down the proverbial tube. Common sense should tell the American people that if unions were a good thing, everyone would be 100% in favor, but the opposite is true. Our current Administration is all about forcing their will on the majority whether they like it or not. If it doesn’t work, the American people can just start all over again while the Liberals enjoy the fruits of their ill-gotten gain. Al Gore will wind up a billionaire, like George Soros, before the global warming scam peters out, and it will. He won’t lose a thing, but millions of Americans will be paying for years just so Mr. Gore could have his moment of imaginary greatness. If you think he is concerned about what is fair in life, forget it. I will say one thing in favor of the Liberal branch of my Party, when it comes to the creation and maintenance of snake oil salespeople, I would give them an A+!