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 »
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 »
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 »
