Secret Ballot Watch

In case there was any doubt left, high-ranking union officials behind the grossly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act have now made it perfectly clear: Card check is all about politics.

The Wall Street Journal’s Brody Mullins reports— 

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“So you thought that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party would be enough to win him the support of Big Labor for his 2010 re-election? Think again.

“Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, says the nation’s largest labor won’t line up behind Specter for his campaign until he reverses course and backs a labor supported bill that would make it easier for workers to join unions. …

“[T]he SEIU is delivering a stack of petitions today to Specter’s office asking him to endorse the Employee Free Choice Act.”

Mullins, “SEIU Pressures Specter on Union Bill,” The Wall Street Journal, 05.01.09 

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Of course, the notion that big-spending special interests are demanding passage of card check as “payback” for their political support is hardly new.

Late last year, Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, told editors and reporters at The Washington Times that “unions paid their dues by supporting Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama in this year's election. He said they expect that effort to be rewarded with action.

“‘The payback would be Employee Free Choice Act…’”

It couldn’t be clearer. Card check is political payback – and anyone who dares not to support the plan can expect political retribution.

Makes you wonder where “employee free choice” comes into play.

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