Ooh! Threats!

One of the great myths that many Americans actually believe is that corporations don't take political stances.

But they do - and they do it quite loudly when they feel their greed-driven hegemony is threatened.

Take their reaction to the Employee Free Choice Act, for instance. EFCA is a much-needed bill supported by workers and the Obama administration. It would ease workplace organization by letting workers simply sign cards if they want to unionize.

However, the incoherent ideologues of Coprorate (sic) America call EFCA a one-way path to bolshevism. Some companies do favor EFCA, but many large businesses do not.

Powerful executives are entitled to their opinions, of course. But what corporations are not entitled to do is bully workers and public officials to force them to abandon EFCA. Naturally, corporations are now doing precisely that.

The Consumer Electronics Association is an industry group that represents electronics companies. According to the group, some of its member companies are threatening to move factories to foreign countries if EFCA passes.

It's unclear which companies. But one thing is clear: I don't like threats.

When a company uses threats with the goal of driving down wages, you know what that's called? Racketeering. Any company that makes a threat like this should be charged under RICO.

What Big Business is doing is a crime. And we have to muster the political will and people power to resist it. Otherwise, we working Americans will lose yet again. Policies of the past quarter-century have already fostered chronic underemployment, and if the trend continues, America will be even more unrecognizable before long.

America needs EFCA, and we can't afford to buckle under to high-handed threats.

(Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123638372783358077.html)