Employee Free Choice Act Flaw Is In The Cards

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 by Admin

Uh oh:

An Ohio union organizer has been fired after he was caught forging documents to deduct money from public employees’ wages to pay for political activity, the Service Employees International Union said yesterday …

The organizer, whom Williams declined to identify, had forged about 40 “PAC cards,” which are documents that allow the union to deduct about $14 per month from employee wages to pay for the union’s political activity.

The union was tipped off about two forged cards by an Ohio Department of Corrections worker at the Belmont Correctional Institution in St. Clairsville. In two years, the organizer had submitted about 115 cards, about one-third of which now appear to have been forged, Williams said.

So, let’s see: a union organizer faked a card to increase revenue for political causes? Doesn’t that strike anyone as exactly the problem with the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow unions to gain new members (and their money) through a process of signed cards rather than a secret ballot election?

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