Small business owners all across the country continue to speak out against the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would actually take away employees’ ability to freely and privately choose whether they wish to join a particular union. As part of that effort, key minority business groups came to Capitol Hill this morning to explain their opposition to the legislation and urge Members of... Read more »
The following op-ed penned by Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) for The Washington Examiner details a soon-to-be-introduced Republican proposal to help Americans protect and rebuild their hard-earned savings. McKeon is the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee and a member of the House GOP Savings Recovery Solutions Group. How the GOP is trying to save your savings By U.... Read more »
Editorial pages all across the country continue to lash out against the anti-worker card check plan, citing local examples of why the bill would be bad for workers and bad for the economy. The bill would replace federally-supervised secret ballot elections with a public sign-up process that subjects workers to public scrutiny and pressure in the formation of a union. Equally troubling, the bill wo... Read more »
The state-by-state effort to protect workers’ fundamental right to a secret ballot is well known. In states across the nation, state and local governments are proactively taking a stand against the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, a bill introduced in the United States Congress that would actually take away employees’ ability to freely choose whether they wish to join a union through a federall... Read more »
The chorus of opposition to the anti-worker card check plan continues to grow, with six Republican governors speaking out today against the legislation. Politico has the scoop: "Six Republican governors, including a couple big ones, are publicly coming out against the Employee Free Choice Act today. South Carolina's Mark Sanford, Mississippi's Haley Barbour, Georgia's Sonny Perdue, Idaho's Butch O... Read more »
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 »
