{"id":92,"date":"2007-09-20T14:53:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:23:57","slug":"intimidation-real-and-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/intimidation-real-and-imagined\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIntimidation\u201d Real and Imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Severed<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Birmingham News<\/a> has an excellent article exposing union officials\u2019 hypocrisy when it comes to \u201cthreats\u201d against employees.<\/p>\n

In Birmingham, United Auto Workers (UAW) union organizer and Honda employee Sheila Boyd recently complained to local media outlets that a letter sent by Honda executives "is trying to threaten us" and claimed that the letter is "just an intimidation tactic.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what does the \u201cintimidating\u201d letter say?<\/p>\n

The letter, which the Birmingham paper quotes from extensively<\/a>, merely points out that Honda has never had to layoff a worker in 30 years, something its competitors in compulsory unionism states can\u2019t say.<\/p>\n

Simply pointing out how laughable it is to call that letter \u201cintimidation,\u201d would be enough if union propagandists weren\u2019t using such baseless claims as \u201cevidence\u201d that Congress should pass a law mandating coercive \u201ccard check\u201d organizing drives. These types of unsubstantiated claims<\/a> by union organizers were the exact basis for a 2005 study created for the union-funded and \u2013financed lobbying group, \u201cAmerican Rights at Work." <\/p>\n

But more to the point is the hypocrisy of union officials to complain about threats and intimidation, when every day they threaten millions of workers with termination, if they refuse to pay forced union dues (like 16 year old Danielle Cookson<\/a>).<\/p>\n

And the UAW has a particularly dubious history when it comes to actual threats and intimidation against employees:<\/p>\n