Yes “Change to Win” is “Change to Lose” for free speech and employee rights to choose.

According to the Wall Street Journal “Big Labor” sent a letter to Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Ct), both keepers of their respective power gates and huge contributors to the housing bubble at Fannie/Freddie.

Anna Burger, chair of the Change to Win federation, wrote that financial services firms and their trade group should “immediately cease all lobbying and advocacy” against “card check” legislation that would end the secret ballot in union elections.

The letter was sent directly to Steve Bartlett, chair of Financial Services Roundtable, but of course both Frank and Dodd have the real power over banks.

Mr. Bartlett has lobbied against the Employee Free Choice Act, which is “card-check” and would force employees to vote for the union label without a secret ballot.

“It is shameful that the Roundtable makes lobbying against the right of workers to organize a legislative priority and, worse yet, is using taxpayer-financed TARP subsidies to do so,” wrote Ms. Burger, whose group includes the Teamsters and the Service Employees International Union, among others. (WSJ)

This is one more attempt by Big Labor using their organized crime tactics to force secret ballots out and unions in without regard to companies and employees. Free to choose in labor is not a right for thugs like Ms. Burger.

The dirty little secret is organizations like Change to Win receive federal money too.

But if Big Labor wants to limit speech, why stop at the bankers? The unions, including those that belong to Change to Win, get plenty of government money for their affiliates to run job training and other programs. For that matter, many employees of companies that have received bailout cash — General Motors or Chrysler, say — use some of their wages to pay union dues. The unions then use those dues to become major political players at election time — to the tune of $450 million in the last election cycle, and that’s the amount they admit to spending. If banks can’t lobby against card check, the United Auto Workers ought to be banned from politics too. (WSJ)

This is one more example of the Left attempting to use power through intimidation to expand and control business. We see what that did for the auto industry. Indeed!