A vicious, eye-catching ad appeared in the NY Times, USA Today and other print media, displaying photos of Idi Amin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Bruce Raynor. Bruce Raynor? A US labor leader? Has the group called UnionFacts.org gone off its gourd? Why is Raynor being equated with a maniacal mass murderer and a current head of state widely held up to ridicule?

Because he supports current legislation before Congress called the Employee Free Choice Act.

Now, while there are rational arguments for and against card check and secret ballots as means to bring a union into a work place, Richard Berman‘s nasty little hit piece is neither rational nor an argument. It sure motivated me to write my congress person in favor of the bill.

For more about Union Facts, just to put a wee bit of context around their “concern for workers,” you could start here, at Source Watch.