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More Reasons EFCA Must Fail No. 4: It Has Another Equally Evil Twin

| Posted in Secret Ballot Watch

Call it “Attack of the EFCA Clones.” Like a flying saucer in a science fiction movie, the Employee Free Choice Act has been hovering over the Capitol for months. Thanks to bipartisan opposition, though, it hasn’t attacked the U.S. economy yet. But measures similar to EFCA are staging economic assaults that are equally troubling. Take federal Project Labor Agreements. Popular among EFCA backers, th... Read more »

More Reasons EFCA Must Fail No. 5: It Has An Equally Evil Twin

| Posted in Secret Ballot Watch

It seems there’s more than one way to meddle with organizing elections at the expense of workers. While most of Capitol Hill’s attention has been on the misleadingly named Employee Free Choice Act – with its ability to kill jobs, set aside the secret ballot, and crush small businesses – there’s another attempt to rig organizing elections underway in a little-known federal agency. The Wall Street J... Read more »

More Reasons EFCA Must Fail No. 6: Lawmakers From Both Sides of the Aisle Are Against It

| Posted in Secret Ballot Watch

Picking up where we left off last week with the list of 10 more reasons the so-called Employee Free Choice Act must fail is an obvious indicator of legislative doom: The act has drawn the ire of elected officials on both sides of the political divide. Although the act’s supporters don’t highlight this fact, it’s not just Republicans opposing EFCA. More than a few Democrats oppose the job-killing b... Read more »

More Reasons EFCA Must Fail No. 7: It’s An Act Only A Labor Boss Could Love

| Posted in Secret Ballot Watch

As we pointed out yesterday, there’s plenty of opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act. So who has been pressuring lawmakers to keep it alive in Congress? Mostly, the heads of some of the nation’s largest labor unions. They have a lot riding on EFCA, especially their future as a major force in Washington. Bloomberg News columnist Albert R. Hunt laid it all out recently in The New York Times her... Read more »

Kline Letter to U.S. Secretary of Education

| Posted in Correspondence

Dear Secretary Duncan: The individuals charged with operating and overseeing our nation’s schools bear a tremendous responsibility. Our teachers and principals on the front lines and the public servants in the nation’s capital have been entrusted with shaping and influencing the lives of the next generation. As a parent and a grandparent, I expect these individuals to demonstrate sound judgment a... Read more »

More Reasons EFCA Must Fail No. 8: States From Coast to Coast Have Rejected It

| Posted in Secret Ballot Watch

Don’t even think about installing card check in California. Or for that matter, just about anywhere else. States from coast to coast have been actively working to thwart the Employee Free Choice Act or state versions of the bill that’s now sitting in Congress. One of the more recent blows happened in the Golden State. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed – for the fourth time – a card check proposal ... Read more »

More Reasons EFCA Must Fail No. 9: A Key EFCA Negotiator Is “Not Happy” With the “Compromise” Bill

| Posted in Secret Ballot Watch

Sen. Sherrod Brown is not happy with a “compromise” version of the Employee Free Choice Act – and he’s one of the act’s key negotiators. This says a lot about EFCA’s so-called compromise even though details haven’t been officially announced yet. The Ohio Democrat admitted his dissatisfaction with EFCA – and the bill’s chances – to The Hill recently here: “In an interview with The Hill, Brown said ... Read more »

Who Said Anything About Transparency?

| Posted in Left Turns

For an Administration that talks a good game about transparency, recent actions by the U.S. Department of Labor certainly don’t inspire much hope about citizens’ – especially workers’ – right to information. Late last week, the Department issued a modest, six sentence notification to Congress announcing plans to rescind a series of changes made to enhance union disclosure. Issued on a Friday befor... Read more »

More Reasons EFCA Must Fail No. 10: Substituting One Bad Idea for Another Is Not a “Compromise”

| Posted in Secret Ballot Watch

Kicking off the countdown of 10 more reasons the so-called Employee Free Choice Act must fail is a look at why – when it comes to jobs and workers’ rights – there can be no compromise. With EFCA seemingly stalled in the Senate, supporters have been suggesting “compromises” to the bill – including dropping its dreaded “card check” provision. But as several observers have pointed out, these “comprom... Read more »

Ten More Reasons EFCA Must Fail

| Posted in Secret Ballot Watch

Over the summer, we offered 10 reasons why the Employee Free Choice Act should fail. It was a good list, but incomplete. You see, EFCA has the potential to wreak such havoc on our economy and workers’ rights that it’s not difficult to find yet another 10 reasons why it should fail: 10. Substituting one bad idea for another is not a “compromise.” 9. A key EFCA negotiator is “not happy” with the “co... Read more »

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