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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 »

One of the most persistent myths about the anti-worker card check plan is the notion that small businesses would be exempt from its damaging consequences. In an opinion piece published today in The Washington Times, Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon puts the myth to rest once and for all. What small-business exemption? By now, the dire consequences of Big Labor's card check scheme are well known. Worke... Read more »

In case you missed it, the following op-ed by Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) appears in The Hill newspaper today as part of a special section on health care reform. McKeon is the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee and a member of the House Republican Health Care Task Force. Cure should not be worse than disease By Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) Healthcare reform is at... Read more »

Adding his voice to a growing chorus of opinion leaders, legal experts, and hardworking Americans, the Republican Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives has penned a compelling defense of secret ballot voting rights for American workers. The op-ed from Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), slated for publication in the March 2009 issue of U.S. News and World Report, exposes the misnamed Employee Free Cho... 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 »