Released on: October 31, 2007, 7:04 am

Press Release Author: Will Fine NAWER

Industry: Government

Press Release Summary: The National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights praises
the good work of Governor Schwarzenegger who cast his of veto of SB. 180 on October
14. Schwarzenegger showed great courage in standing up for Secret Ballot elections
for farmers.

Press Release Body: Washington, DC, October 29, 2007 --(PR.com)-- The National
Alliance for Worker and Employer rights praises the good work of Governor
Schwarzenegger who cast his of veto of SB. 180 on October 14. Governor
Schwarzenegger showed great courage in standing up for Secret Ballot elections for
farmers in the California workplace. The Governor did not listen to the Labor lords
who fought freedom through intimidation only to increase their membership by
stripping secret ballot elections away. Rather, as Will Fine, executive director of
the National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights wrote in a letter to the
Governor and other state legislators, that in this veto \"you have heard the call of
Californians affirming workers\' rights will never be compromised to the labor mobs
again.\"

The National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights worked with the Governor and
defenders of a free workplace to defeat SB.180 by reminding the politicians of
farmers who work hard for their families, that their right to a secret ballot is
always sacred whether they come to live or be born in this country. The Governor
understood the needs of his people\'s freedoms stood above the \"take away\" politics
of the unions was in the end his veto against card check.

By setting in place a \"card-check\" organizing process, SB 180 significantly changes
the protections afforded to all of California\'s agricultural workers under the ALRA.
This \"card-check\" process fundamentally alters an employee\'s right to a secret
ballot election that currently affords them the opportunity to cast a ballot
privately without fear of coercion or manipulation by any interested parties. This
bill also limits the opportunity for employees to hear and consider other viewpoints
on unionization.

Learn more about the work of the National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights at
http://www.freeworkplace.org.

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202-492-3196
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