Here at Freedom@Work, we’ve been covering Big Labor’s vicious corporate smear campaigns for quite some time. With the likelihood of pro-compulsory unionism politicians being swept into office and Big Labor’s power on the rise, it looks like union organizers have redoubled their efforts to impose card-check certification drives across the country.

First, we have the case of Aramark Food Services, headquartered in Philadelphia. As mentioned earlier, Aramark has been targeted by the SEIU for refusing to cooperate with the union bosses’ efforts to forcibly organize company employees. Now comes this latest update from Chicago’s Daily Herald (emphasis mine):

"It’s very typical of SEIU to … put pressure on the employer by … pointing out the various problems with the employer’s labor relations or management practices," said Bob Bruno, a labor relations researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago…

Hade said the union is pursuing agreements that would allow suburban service workers to unionize without holding an election.

"It’s a fair process," [service union spokeswoman] Hade said. "They don’t face intimidation from anyone."

A fair process? Note how the article euphemistically alludes to card-check elections as "agreements that would allow suburban service workers to unionize without holding an election." That’s an interesting way to characterize a process that subjects workers to coercive public pressure from both management and union organizers. Hade would do well to check out the Foundation’s video on card-check harassment and intimidation.

But not surprisingly, this is happening all over the place. In Oregon, United Farm Workers operatives are pressuring Beef Northwest to organize its workers. The locale may change, but Big Labor’s tactics stay the same (emphasis mine):

Now, the United Farm Workers’ efforts to organize the state’s largest cattle feedlot has turned ugly, as the two sides clash over one central question: whether or not the company’s 80 employees even want union representation.

Union organizers say Beef Northwest workers don’t get regular salary raises, affordable health insurance or respect. They want a card check process, in which workers sign union cards and a third party oversees the vote. In the card check process, at least 50 percent of workers need to agree to union representation.

Beef Northwest owners say their workers are among the highest paid in the industry and that the majority of their workers appear happy. They want the vote taken by secret ballot, in which workers vote anonymously without union involvement.

Oregon’s experience foreshadows Big Labor’s coming political ascendancy. Union operatives are in the process of securing the allegiance of state and local governments across the country. With a big national election coming up, Forbes has the story on union organizers’ goals for the next election cycle:

Teamsters spokesman Galen Munroe says, "It’s pretty much accepted that Americans want change after the Bush Administration," adding that the Employee Free Choice Act, designed to make it easier for workers to choose a union, would help strengthen the middle class. The measure didn’t make it out of the Senate last year, but Obama has vowed to revive it if elected.