{"id":7114,"date":"2009-06-04T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-attacks-on-vote-by-mail-have-no-place-in-employee-free-choice-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:46","slug":"merkley-attacks-on-vote-by-mail-have-no-place-in-employee-free-choice-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-attacks-on-vote-by-mail-have-no-place-in-employee-free-choice-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley: Los ataques al voto por correo no tienen cabida en el debate sobre la libertad de elecci\u00f3n de los empleados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><br \/>Washington DC<\/strong> \u2013 En los \u00faltimos d\u00edas, opositores a la<br \/>\nLa Ley de Libre Elecci\u00f3n de los Empleados ha dirigido su fuego hacia un m\u00e9todo de votaci\u00f3n que ha<br \/>\nse ha utilizado con \u00e9xito en Oreg\u00f3n durante m\u00e1s de una d\u00e9cada: voto por correo.&nbsp;<br \/>\nEl senador de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, expuso hoy los hechos de estos nuevos oponentes.<br \/>\nde voto por correo.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cDesafortunadamente, los opositores a la Ley de Libre Elecci\u00f3n de los Empleados han optado por apuntar al voto por correo como parte de sus intentos equivocados de dificultar que los trabajadores elijan si quieren o no formar sindicatos. Esto simplemente muestra que est\u00e1n agarrando un clavo ardiendo para descarrilar esta importante legislaci\u00f3n sin tener en cuenta los hechos o la historia comprobada del voto por correo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cIncre\u00edblemente, un oponente incluso lleg\u00f3 a decir que, &#039;No se puede eludir la coerci\u00f3n movi\u00e9ndola del estacionamiento a la sala de estar&#039;. Lo desafiar\u00eda a hacer esa declaraci\u00f3n a la gente de Oreg\u00f3n que felizmente ha tomado sus decisiones electorales en la comodidad y seguridad de sus salas de estar y cocinas durante una d\u00e9cada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cPor supuesto, estos ataques son simplemente una cortina de humo dise\u00f1ada para bloquear la legislaci\u00f3n que empoderar\u00e1 a los trabajadores y ayudar\u00e1 a nuestra clase media. Pero burlarse del voto por correo no es la forma de debatir honestamente la Ley de Libre Elecci\u00f3n de los Empleados\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &ndash; In recent days, opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act have turned their fire toward a voting method that has been used successfully in Oregon for over a decade:&nbsp; vote-by-mail.&nbsp; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley today laid out the facts for these new opponents of vote-by-mail. &ldquo;Unfortunately, opponents of the Employee Free Choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-jobs-and-the-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley: Attacks On Vote-By-Mail Have No Place in Employee Free Choice Debate - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-attacks-on-vote-by-mail-have-no-place-in-employee-free-choice-debate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley: Attacks On Vote-By-Mail Have No Place in Employee Free Choice Debate - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, DC &ndash; 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