The claims by card check supporters that their plan would strengthen the economy have always been dubious. After all, the best way to strengthen the economy in the current downturn is to create jobs – and the card check plan does nothing to spur job growth. But now, it has become clear that the card check plan – which takes away workers’ right to vote by secret ballot on whether to join a union – ... Read more »
Opposition to the anti-worker card check plan among editorial boards and opinion leaders is well documented. And it’s no surprise. After all, the card check legislation—deceptively dubbed the Employee Free Choice Act, despite the fact that it takes away employees’ free choice through a secret ballot—is fundamentally undemocratic, something the American people don’t take lightly. However, it’s not ... Read more »
Nearly two months after Democrats convened the 111th Congress and began outlining their policy goals for the coming session, their decision not to introduce the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act is conspicuous, to say the least. The legislation is better known as card check, because it forces workers to vote publicly, by signing or refusing to sign their name to an authorization card, on whether t... Read more »
Apparently, even a snowstorm blanketing the eastern seaboard cannot quell editorial opposition to the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would strip workers of the freedom to vote privately, through a secret ballot, on whether to join a union. Over the weekend, editorial pages from one coast to the other added their voices to the growing chorus of opposition to the special interest car... Read more »
The card check union organizing method – in which workers are asked to publicly declare support for a union by signing a card, rather than privately voting through a secret ballot – has drawn widespread opposition because of its undemocratic nature. Editorial pages across the country have come out against the public sign-up process … and now, they’re questioning why special interest groups are pur... Read more »
Earlier today, the Obama Administration released a budget blueprint for FY 2010 that taxes, borrows, and spends its way into an unprecedented era of bigger, more intrusive government. Small businesses – along with the rest of the American economy – will be forced to pay the price for this government spending spree, making it more difficult to create jobs and help our economy bounce back. And this ... Read more »
The secret ballot is a hallmark of our democratic society. It guarantees that individuals can vote their conscience, free from public pressure, coercion, or the threat of retribution. The secret ballot is vital to individual freedom – and yet it is under assault. The Problem American workers in particular are seeing their right to a secret ballot eroded. Under current federal labor law, when a uni... Read more »
Scarcely a day goes by without a major string of editorials, op-eds, and letters to the editor filling the opinion pages of newspapers large and small in opposition to the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would give workers anything but a free choice in deciding whether to form a union. Over the weekend, the Orlando Sentinel carried one such editorial that made a particularly compell... Read more »
In the ongoing battle over whether workers should have access to the privacy and protections of secret ballots in union organizing elections, few things come as a surprise anymore. But one thing that never ceases to amaze is the discrepancy between workers’ rights, and efforts to protect those rights, in Mexico and right here at home. Longtime observers of the troubling card check scheme already k... Read more »
Most of the debate surrounding the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act has focused on the bill’s “card check” provision to do away with secret ballot union organizing elections. And it’s no wonder. Denying workers the right to a secret ballot is fundamentally undemocratic, exposing workers to public pressure and possible retribution based on whether or not they “sign the card.” As troubling... Read more »
