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Ohio McDonald’s Tells Employees To Vote Republican If They Want To Continue Receiving Raises And Benefits McDonald’s sells itself as the ultimate happy place. But this election season, a local McDonald’s franchise in Canton, Ohio is telling employees how to keep the company happy: vote Republican.
Along with their recent paychecks, employees received a pamphlet from their employer on company letter head that stated “as the election season is here, we wanted you to know which candidates will help our business grow in the future.” While pointing out that the vote is the employee’s “personal decision,” the pamphlet explicitly states, “if the right people are elected we will be able to continue with raises and benefits at or above our present levels. If others are elected we will not”:
In explicitly endorsing gubernatorial candidate John Kasich (R), Senate candidate Rob Portman (R), and House candidate Jim Renacci (R), the pamphlet — which was directly inside the envelope with the paycheck — appears to directly violate Ohio Revised Code regarding elections:
No employer or his agent or a corporation shall print or authorize to be printed upon any pay envelopes any statements intended or calculated to influence the political action of his or its employees; or post or exhibit in the establishment or anywhere in or about the establishment any posters, placards, or hand bills containing any threat, notice, or information that if any particular candidate is elected or defeated work in the establishment will cease in whole or in part, or other threats expressed or implied, intended to influence the political opinions or votes of his or its employees.
“This is an outrageous attack on one of the most fundamental rights our citizens enjoy – the right to vote for the candidate of his/her choice without economic fear or threat,” states local attorney Allen Schulman who is investigating the matter. “It is particularly egregious that in this time of harsh economic conditions, a corporation would stoop to this level of voter intimidation.”
Not to mention that Kasich, Portman, and Renacci all oppose the health care reform law, a law that ensures employees like those at McDonald’s can afford health coverage and provides companies like McDonald’s with “significant flexibility to maintain coverage for workers.” And should these three adopt the Republican view of the minimum wage, the only happy face at the this McDonald’s will be the employer’s. SharePri
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Kinda funny that one of the first companies to receive a WAVIER from the requirements of the Health care bill was McDonald's so their employees could keep the health insurance they have been providing.
"without economic fear or threat” Seems we should have been told this durring the last presidential election.
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“This is an outrageous attack on one of the most fundamental rights our citizens enjoy – the right to vote for the candidate of his/her choice without economic fear or threat,” states local attorney Allen Schulman who is investigating the matter. “It is particularly egregious that in this time of harsh economic conditions, a corporation would stoop to this level of voter intimidation.
Kinda like Obama campaigning 3 times in Miami in the last 4 months.... Miami....really
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quote:Originally posted by Lockman: Kinda sounds like a Union shop....
Really...have you ever worked in a union shop? Did they threaten you if you didn't vote the way they wanted you to? Can you think for yourself, or do you just repeat the crap you hear on Fox "News"?
I worked in a union shop for 30 + years and was NEVER threatened or coerced in any way to vote for any candidate...
Stop spewing sh!t you know NOTHING about...
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The only work place where voter intimidation would take place is in a nonunion shop
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quote:Originally posted by Lockman: Kinda sounds like a Union shop....
Really...have you ever worked in a union shop? Did they threaten you if you didn't vote the way they wanted you to? Can you think for yourself, or do you just repeat the crap you hear on Fox "News"?
I worked in a union shop for 30 + years and was NEVER threatened or coerced in any way to vote for any candidate...
Stop spewing sh!t you know NOTHING about...
Did your union ever endorse a candidate? Did the union president ever tell the candidate he would bring in the vote? Come on.
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quote:Originally posted by Lockman: Kinda sounds like a Union shop....
Really...have you ever worked in a union shop? Did they threaten you if you didn't vote the way they wanted you to? Can you think for yourself, or do you just repeat the crap you hear on Fox "News"?
I worked in a union shop for 30 + years and was NEVER threatened or coerced in any way to vote for any candidate...
Stop spewing sh!t you know NOTHING about...
Did your union ever endorse a candidate? Did the union president ever tell the candidate he would bring in the vote? Come on.
Try this lockman...be a man and answer my questions first, then we can discuss it further
It's either that or I'll put you on my "too stupid to debate with" list...
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It's all in the timing... Posts: 4303 | From: DSA | Registered: Dec 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Lockman: When a Union endorses a candidate are they not telling membership they think things will be better for them if that candidate or party wins.
Sounds like what parents do with their children, or friends do with their friends...
The issue here is "threats" and "coercion"...
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It's all in the timing... Posts: 4303 | From: DSA | Registered: Dec 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Lockman: Kinda sounds like a Union shop....
Really...have you ever worked in a union shop? Did they threaten you if you didn't vote the way they wanted you to? Can you think for yourself, or do you just repeat the crap you hear on Fox "News"?
I worked in a union shop for 30 + years and was NEVER threatened or coerced in any way to vote for any candidate...
Stop spewing sh!t you know NOTHING about...
Did your union ever endorse a candidate? Did the union president ever tell the candidate he would bring in the vote? Come on.
Try this lockman...be a man and answer my questions first, then we can discuss it further
It's either that or I'll put you on my "too stupid to debate with" list...
No I haven't worked in a union shop but know many who have... Have you worked in every Union Shop? How would you possibly know what goes on in other union shops?
A simple story, probably 2nd or 3rd hand has caused certain folks to bash McDonalds as a company that threatens employees. Your condemnation of McDonalds is just as valuable as mine of Union Shops, and please don't try and tell me union members have never been subject to strong suggestions as to who to vote for.
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No I haven't worked in a union shop but know many who have...
i know quite a few people who worked in Unions.
some of them were drunks. some of them worked their way up to mutliple AA degrees in machining and elctical and electronics and welding...
Most of my old union friends are now owners of their own contracting businesses who still hire union cuz they know they are getting quality workers.
i worked for the IBEW immediatley out of the Navy... i was sent to a half dozen differnt jobs and liked most of them..
i quit when i was sent to a Hotel constuction job in DC and was given a palate load of electric outlets and told to start installing... i lasted three days at that and said effthis... even at 8$ an hour in the 80's.. i just couldn't handle the mindlessness of it.. esp. since i had enough time and training to already be qualified to sit for eht journeyman license..
somwhow the idea of installing 4 outlets in each room of a 140 room hotel made me crazy...
that's where most unions thrive, in jobs that will drive people crazy, and those jobs have all gone to China now. Has it occurred to you anti-union guys that we want China's Trade Unions to thrive and grow because that's the best way to "liberate" the Chinese People from their overbearing Govt?
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