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The anti-worker card check plan has always been understood to be political payback to certain special interest groups. Union leaders have publicly admitted as much. But a revealing new interview of a top labor boss by Politico exposes a previously hidden agenda for those who would take away workers’ right to a secret ballot: it’s all about consolidating power in the ongoing union turf battle. “‘Pa... Read more »

It has been nearly two months since the 111th Congress was gaveled into session, and yet congressional Democrats still have not formally introduced their misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would actually deny workers a free choice by denying their right to a secret ballot. Arkansas News Bureau columnist David J. Sanders speculates on the holdup: "Last year the bill had 230 original co-... Read more »

Nearly two months into the 111th Congress, the special interest groups and congressional Democrats behind the anti-worker card check plan aren’t having much luck convincing the American people to support their undemocratic scheme. Editorials and opinion articles continue to appear all across the country decrying the proposal to deny workers the right to a secret ballot in workplace organizing elec... Read more »

Card check supporters must be getting desperate. Facing overwhelming public opposition and a flawed message, they have decided the best way to kill the secret ballot is simply to muzzle those who defend it. An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal exposes this troubling new tactic: “…Anna Burger, chair of the Change to Win federation, wrote that financial services firms and their trade group sh... Read more »

The card check method for requiring workers to publicly declare support for forming a union has already proven unpopular with the American people and with opinion leaders around the country. Now a top legal scholar has weighed in, publishing a detailed analysis that debunks the false claims made by card check supporters and makes a compelling case that enactment of the misnamed Employee Free Choic... Read more »

Despite the fact that momentum seems to be waning for the anti-worker card check plan, editorial boards all around the country continue to speak up on behalf of worker rights, and specifically the right to a secret ballot. Last month, Secret Ballot Watch highlighted the fact that special interest groups are having a hard time justifying their plan to deny workers the right to a secret ballot. For ... Read more »

Dogged by massive unpopularity and a losing message, supporters of the anti-worker card check plan are going to great lengths to revive their ill-conceived plan to deny workers the right to a secret ballot. Luckily for American workers, editorial pages around the country aren’t buying into the rhetoric. While supporters of the card check plan struggle to convince the American people that they aren... Read more »

It has been widely reported and editorialized that the anti-worker card check plan would deny workers the right to a secret ballot election when deciding whether to join a union. Unfortunately for the special interest groups promoting this undemocratic scheme, elimination of the secret ballot doesn’t play so well with the American people, to the tune of 74% opposition among union households and, l... Read more »

Special interest groups have been making a fuss today about a petition being delivered to Congress in favor of the ironically-named Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would actually take away an employee’s free choice about whether to join a union by stripping away the right to a secret ballot. But what has been lost amid discussion of a million or so signatures corralled by the special interes... Read more »

Less than a month into the 111th Congress and it appears the countdown to card check may be over. Various news outlets are reporting that special interest groups will overtake the U.S. Capitol tomorrow in an effort to persuade Members of Congress to support legislation that would deny workers’ right to a secret ballot. Of course, these are the same groups plotting a spin campaign and waging a mult... Read more »