Read this flyer: Associated Builders and Contractors support McCain

Then read the response from Int. President Leo Gerard below.

Last week I e-mailed you a document that is being distributed by the corporate D.C. interest group representing builders and contractors.  This organization, Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), is anti-union and was actually formed in the 1950’s in an effort to stop the AFL-CIO push to insure community building projects used all-union labor.  They also have been a top adversary to legislation called Davis-Bacon that mandates taxpayer-financed building jobs be done at union wages.

 

They claim to be the very first business group to endorse McCain for President (even before the Chamber of Commerce or the Business Roundtable.)

 

I sent you their pamphlet announcing their support for Sen. McCain for president to show you how such groups are spinning labor related issues by standing them on their head.  

 

Organizations like ABC don’t come right out and say support our candidate because he will get rid of corporate regulation, help us bust unions and keep wages and benefits as low as possible.  Instead they use words and phrases that are often invented by corporate lobbyists and usually hide their true intention which is just the opposite of the natural meaning of the words.

 

Below are a few of the deceiving words and phrases they used in the flyer I sent you along with the true meaning they are designed to hide:

 

Free Enterprise – Actually means no government controls that would protect workers or mandate ethical corporate conduct.

 

Open Competition – Actually means no guarantee of union wages on taxpayer-financed building projects.

 

Secret Ballot Elections for Unions – Actually means they want to stop the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) from becoming law so they can continue to delay elections and intimidate and frustrate workers in the interim. The EFCA would mandate that if a majority of workers sign a card requesting union representation, they would have their union immediately – no unnecessary delays, no harassment, no intimidation, and no illegal firings.

 

Health Plan – Actually means no national healthcare plan and no health care coverage for all Americans.

 

Salting Abuse – Actually means they want to be free to fire workers when the find out or suspect they have taken a job in order to help workers at a site form a union.

 

Supports Deregulation to Unburden American Business – Actually means supports any law that would weaken restrictions on corporate behavior and/or would weaken protections for workers.

 

John McCain Supports Workers Rights – Actually means he supports the right of corporate executives to aggressively fight the attempts of workers to organize.

 

 

Please keep this deceiving language in mind as you read or listen to this corporate doubletalk, especially in the media.

 

We know it is time for a change.  We need a stronger union, more American jobs, a better economy, fair trade and national healthcare!  We need Barack Obama as President!