The Department of Labor reported this morning that the U.S. economy shed 598,000 jobs in the month of January, the largest single-month total since 1974, bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent. In response to these staggering figures, the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican, Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), issued the following statement: “There is no doubt about t... 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 »
Each year on February 2nd, we watch and wait to see whether the famed Punxsutawney Phil will emerge from his burrow and see his shadow (signifying six more weeks of winter) or not (meaning spring will come early). For the record, it seems now would be a bad time to pack up those snow shovels; Phil saw his shadow this morning. But weather forecasting isn’t the only thing Groundhog Day is known for.... Read more »
Dear Colleague: The American people believe strongly in their right to a secret ballot, and are overwhelmingly opposed to legislation that would take away that right in the workplace. Such is the finding of a new national survey from McLaughlin & Associates that shows widespread public opposition to the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would offer workers anything but a free choice ... Read more »
The hits just keep on coming for the anti-worker card check plan. It seems that denying the right to a secret ballot just isn’t popular with American workers or families. There are hard-hitting editorials, like this one in today’s Washington Times. "[E]ven the smallest businesses could face the costs associated with union strikes and binding arbitration. And it goes a step further, giving the empl... Read more »
Facts are inconvenient things, at least for special interest groups trying to convince a wary public to support the rollback of basic democratic principles. That’s what supporters of the anti-worker card check scheme are discovering this week as their rationale for the legislation crumbles before their eyes. For years, supporters of card check—a plan to abolish secret ballot unionizing elections a... Read more »
With Democrats still plotting and planning for a vote later this year on their anti-worker card check plan, it’s useful to remember how widespread the opposition really is. Leaders from across the political spectrum have lined up against this undemocratic plan because it is so fundamentally unfair to workers. For instance, last summer, George McGovern—the former Senator and Democratic presidential... Read more »
For the third time in less than two years, congressional Democrats today advanced the most fundamental shift in civil rights law in decades while preventing Republicans from offering a single amendment. With final passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the bill now goes to the President without a single Republican amendment ever having received the consideration of the full U.S. Hous... Read more »
