As the two week congressional recess starts to wind down, it seems that the special interest spending spree in support of the anti-worker card check scheme has failed to sway public opinion as its backers had hoped. Despite a seven-figure ad buy, editorial pages from coast to coast and everywhere in between continue to denounce the card check ploy, which would deny workers the privacy and protecti... Read more »
Much of the criticism surrounding the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act has focused on the card check provision of the legislation. Under that proposal, workers would be denied a secret ballot in union organizing elections, and instead would be asked to publicly declare whether they wish to join a particular union by signing a card. While the criticism of that provision is well-deserved, ... Read more »
The special interest groups behind the anti-worker card check plan haven’t given up, despite the legislation’s plummeting popularity among policymakers and opinion leaders alike. Luckily for workers, the fight to protect the secret ballot continues just as diligently. Over the weekend, the Fredericksburg, VA Free Lance-Star carried an op-ed that clearly spells out the dangers of this special inter... Read more »
It’s not just editorial boards and opinion leaders speaking out against the anti-worker card check ploy. Academics, researchers, and economists have weighed in as well, and their findings are clear: Card check is bad news for the American economy. In today’s San Francisco Chronicle, the Pacific Research Institute’s Jason Clemens summarizes empirical evidence about card check’s potential consequenc... Read more »
Although congressional support for card check legislation – the plan to replace federally-supervised secret ballot elections with a public sign-up process for forming a union – has been dwindling, the well-financed groups behind the plan remain undaunted. According to Politico’s Ben Smith, “A labor coalition is launching, a spokesman says, a seven-figure ad buy aimed at putting the Employee Free C... Read more »
With Members of Congress at home in their congressional districts this week, small business owners, local manufacturers, and other job-creating enterprises have a tremendous opportunity to explain directly to their elected officials exactly why they oppose the anti-worker card check bill. And, according to the Rocky Mount Telegram, that’s exactly what happened earlier this week in North Carolina. ... Read more »
Members of Congress home for the two week district work period may have escaped the Washington echo chamber, but they can’t escape the nationwide echo of opposition to the anti-worker card check plan. Just yesterday, a coalition of minority business groups became the latest to raise their voices in opposition to the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that actually takes away workers’ abili... Read more »
Though Congress is not in session, the threat of pending legislation to deny workers the right to a secret ballot in union organizing elections is still very real. That’s why editorial pages around the country continue to pile on in opposition to this anti-worker, anti-growth plan. On Sunday, an editorial in the Grand Rapids Press spelled out the dangers of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act –... Read more »
For anyone who mistakenly thought the anti-worker card check bill was no longer a threat, an exclusive story online at Politico should serve as a jarring wakeup call. Reporter Mike Allen reveals that labor officials plan to use the upcoming two week Congressional district work period to undertake “the biggest grassroots mobilization of America’s workers since the final week of the presidential ele... Read more »
Word of card check’s devastating consequences for the American economy has spread like wildfire, and small business owners all over the country are taking notice. After all, the card check scheme would effectively eliminate secret ballots in workplace organizing elections, putting workers at risk of intimidation and public pressure while potentially jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of American j... Read more »
