Newspeak
We’re still miles behind the Republicans when it comes to Orwellian nomenclature (think USA Patriot Act), but it’s a start:
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would allow labor unions to organize workplaces without a secret ballot election.
Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to force consideration of the Employee Free Choice Act, ending organized labor’s chance to win its top legislative priority from Congress.
Got that? the “Employee Free Choice Act” was a bill that would have eliminated the requirement of secret ballot elections for employees.
Instead, an employee got to make his/her decision publicly, say in a union hall after a meeting or a parking lot in front of co-workers and a couple of Teamsters from the local. What could be freer than that?
