McDonalds getting voting advice

Laglen, the difference is that McDonalds is telling their employees to vote a way and they will get raises, and benefits. Thus, they can directly effect an employees income. Voting for a union candidate isn't going to increase their pay, nor benefits, it is only going to put someone who supports maintaining unions in office (unless the person running for office is a part of the management team of a union company). Your boss didn't tell you that your wage, and benefits will be directly effected if you don't vote one way or the other. He just told you the facts of this race, and how that COULD effect your job. This is why it is always the best policy to keep politics out of the office, even if it COULD effect someones job.

The difference is that unions don't threaten to withhold bonuses and raises if they don't like who wins the election, and Paul Siegfried did exactly that. "Do ya think I have a lawsuit?" What are the laws in your state? The laws in Ohio very specifically say that employers can't put electioneering information in worker's paychecks.

Good point. Apparently it's only right if union thugs do it.

IMO, laglen, the difference between your employer putting pressure on you to vote a certain way and your union doing the same thing is that your employer has the ability to retaliate against you should you not follow his "suggestion" and he finds out about it. Some exmples of that would be loss of hours, not receiving a pay raise, a hostile work environment and, last but not least, the loss of your job.

I did hear about the whole McDonald article and I have to say that being that McDonald's is such a big organization I am sure they sought advice form attorneys as to whether this would be a basis for a potential lawsuit. Sure I can bet you can find any attorney to entertain a suit. Whether you win later is an altogether different issue. See the article is urging not saying they have to. It is all in how things are worded. My personal opinion is that they should not be urging period, the right to vote and select should not be urged or dis way in any way. Good Luck.

This is a first amendment issue. McDonald's did not say they would fire employees or punish them for not voting Republican. They were simply stating the reality that DemocRats are blatantly anti-business and their policies would reduce employment (yet again). This should no more be supressed than the idiot MoveOn sycophant who got her butt kicked in KY.

I don't think much of it, although I would say it's in poor taste. I just don't think personal politics belong in the work place. You should be there to do a job, not campaign and that goes for employees and management. Personally I'd NEVER dealt with political crap at any job until moving to New Jersey. Now I regularly get garbage from the union in my WORK EMAIL telling me how horrible Chris Christie is for everything like expecting state and county employees to pay a minimum of 1.5% (yes really 1.5%) of their salaries for medical benefits. So those poor employees making 30K pay $17 per paycheck and people making 43K pay a whopping $24 per paycheck (insurance used to be 100% free). I also got one about how Chris Christie hates working Americans because he wants to delay unemployment benefits to people fired for misconduct for 4 weeks and deny benefits entirely for people fired for gross misconduct until they obtain new employment. I was sick of their electioneering after the first email. In Florida every government agency I worked for had a strict ban on that kind of crap.

i thought they put some brochures in the bigmac..

ehehe i thought that they put some brocheres in the bigmac...

Personally I think voting is a VERY personal decision. It is up to each individual to research the candidates and chose who they want to vote for. Employers, unions, and all the rest should stay out of it.

I would tend to view this as did para and in agreement with laglen. It has been my experience that unions resort to much thuggery and unusually heightened pressure. Wasn't it union boss and Obama's "right- hand man, Andy Stern who said, "First we use the power of persuasion, and then we use the persuasion of power?"

For me they do that so that they can go strong in there business.

I'm really not ok with either the employer or the unions urging you to vote one way or the other. Give me the facts and I'll make the decision.

There is a huge difference between the unions advising people and a McDonald's manager advising people how to vote. The unions were created and are supported for that exactly. McDonald's is a fast food resturant and has no say in advising people how to vote. I live near that area and was very disappointed to hear of this incident. People need the facts of each candidate rather than a piece of paper saying how to vote.