The Truth About EFCA Is Lacing Up Its Shoes

Monday, March 30th, 2009 by Admin

We have mentioned before, and NAM’s Carter Wood has been documenting, a scandalous effort on the part of union officials and their surrogates to blatantly lie about a key point in the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act.

Knowing it is incredibly unpopular to take away secret ballots, EFCA proponents are denying the realities of the law. Worse, they have taken part of a sentence from the Wall Street Journal to support their cause. The Wall Street Journal was not kind of amused. Having set the record straight, it should have been a closed case. But then comes the latest edition of the Dallas Morning News, which carries this letter to the editor …

I enjoyed John Palter’s diatribe against unions and AFL-CIO leader Jim McCasland’s response. The right-wingers are trying to make it a union vs. business thing, when it’s actually corporations vs. employees. Palter’s contention that the new legislation would cancel the secret ballot is false. Even the corporate-friendly Wall Street Journal editors acknowledge that it wouldn’t. — Gene Lantz, Dallas

You know what they say about lies spreading half-way round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. Time to lace up again.

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4 Responses to “The Truth About EFCA Is Lacing Up Its Shoes”

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  2. March 31st, 2009 at 7:12 am

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    [...] Former West Wing actors Martin Sheen, Bradley Whtiford (who is on the board of directors for the union group that continues to mislead the public on card check), and Richard Schiff will be making an appearance in support of the Employee Free Choice Act [...]

  3. April 1st, 2009 at 7:00 am

    Dallas Reader Catches Big Labor’s Big Lie | thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check says:

    [...] As we have told readers, organized labor has been — incorrectly — claiming that the Employee Free Choice Act would keep the secret ballot process for union drives. Relying on a technicality, their statements are misleading. But they have gone further — too far — in taking Wall Street Journal editorial words out of context to twist the meaning. [...]

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    [...] Of course, that’s about as realistic as … well, anything that comes out of Hollywood. Click here to learn more about this myth and why it’s so important to debunk. [...]