Focus On The Family about 10 years ago aired the testimony of a man whose grandfather brought the Mafia into the USA. That man was working his way up through the ranks of the Mafia to take his grandfather's place when he was stopped by the sovereign intervention of God. Today he has an outstanding prison ministry. During the course of his 2-hour testimony on the radio, he distinctly said that every union in the USA is controlled by the Mafia. In-house unions are an exception, however. The first name of that man is Tom, but I don't know how to spell his last name, which began with a P.

During the 1970's I met people, who told me how Mafia goons beat people up at the polls during the 1930's in PA if they tried to vote Republican. To avoid the beatings, Republican voters waited for the miners to get out of work in the mines so they could vote. There were many brawls throughout PA with the Mafia, union thugs and the miners always won. In those days with paper ballots, elections couldn't be rigged using the modems on the voting machines.

A British historian named Douglas Reed wrote a book called "Far And Wide" awhile before the Korean War ended. He predicted that war would not be won by the USA for the reasons explained in his book. One of those reasons is that the top ranks of the Mafia are connected to the top ranks of the Communist Party. Both he and his publisher were assassinated shortly after his book was released to the public in England. Whoever murdered them also stole every unsold copy of that book in the publisher's warehouse. I had the privilege of seeing during the 1980's a copy that survived.

Thus, you are not dealing with amateur thugs. They are cold-blooded traitors.

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As a federal employee and a union member, I want to clarify some things. Federal workers already have "Right to Work". No one can force a federal worker to join a union. That is the way that it is by law right now and I think that is the way it should be. Union membership is voluntary. We have secret ballots and that is the way it should be. It is illegal for a union to take union dues and use them to contribute to any political campaign. Our union has a separate Political Action Committee (PAC) which members are free to donate to or not. There is no comingling of funds. If the union does take dues and uses them for political contributions, those responsible can go to jail. Finally, my union is more about protecting the workers from management abuse and ensuring the safety of both the workers and the public (my job deals with ensuring the safety of the flying public). The contract that we are currently under was coerced by the Agency. They stopped negotiating in good faith. We were told that if we didn't vote for the contract they proposed, we would be at impass and it would go to congress. We would then be forced to take the last offer by management. That isn't good faith bargaining, that is bullying. Unions are both good and bad. Without them, workers are forced to work in unsafe conditions, with 12 hour days without breaks for 6 days a week and children forced to work. All these things...breaks...lunch...bathroom breaks...safety equipment...child labor laws...all of these things are the result of unions. Do unions sometimes do things wrong? Of course! But they are an essential counterbalance in a well functioning capitalist system. I'm absolutely in favor of the right to work, and we have that. I am absolutely in favor of secret ballots, and we have that. I am absolutely opposed to union dues being used for political activity, and we have laws against that. Rather than decry federal worker unions, it sure sounds like what you really want is for all unions to follow the same rules that apply to federal workers...unless you are just anti-union and anti-worker altogether. If you are just "anti-union" and anti-worker, then think about it the next time you are at work and have to use the bathroom, or are on your 15 minute break, or eating your lunch, or see a fire extinguisher or safety exit door. Even with these safety rules, 14 workers a day die on the job. By the way, the 8 hour day with breaks has been demonstrated to make workers more productive than a straight 12 hour day. If you run a horse straight out without a break, you will kill it. The same is true of a man. If you stop and take a break, you get more work out of both horses and men. It isn't sloth, it's efficiency. By the way, what is wrong with workers getting paid well? CEOs get paid hundreds of times what a worker gets paid. Why is letting the market determine cost ok for everything else except the cost of labor? Unions...collective bargaining...just sets the fair market value of the commodity of labor. Isn't that how capitalism works? If workers with a skillset get together and decide that they don't want to work for a low income, why is that philosophically wrong? Isn't that capitalism? Isn't that what we all say we believe in? Why let government force workers to work cheaper? Why not let the market decide what is the fair price for skilled labor?

I am in accord with the gentleman who opposes automatic sign up without secret ballot. the time is to rebuke national union leaders who are only interested in political power to gain fraudulent appointments by denying the secret ballot. National unions are essentially a disgrace and should not be allowed to establish policy. Policy and union people are only to be made by secret ballot with no choice by national officers. Let good local union members decide who is to represent them via ballot not bigotry.