Your claim that it would cost 5.4 million jobs is equally laughable. George Bush cost us more than that. Perhaps EFCA supporters are also carriers of swine flu?? Get a grip.

This law does not eliminate elections, it changes who has the power to decide how to join the union from the employer to the employee. What would be more democratic than that? The decision to join or not join along with how to join should fall in the hands of employees, not their supervisors.

To understand why the corporate and political powers that be do not want the law to pass, you have to understand the differences between our national secret-ballot elections and the secret-ballot elections that exist when forming a union.

Imagine if the incumbent politician had the power to force you to sit in meetings in which you were constantly being bombarded with propaganda, then brought in one-on-one to interview you about your support for the opposing candidate, the vote would be held at the incumbent’s office with the staff watching, the date of the election could be delayed through an appeal process and, in the weeks leading up to the election, the incumbent fires people who will vote against him and hires new people to vote for him.

Most reasonable people would consider this process unfair at best and totalitarian at worst, yet this is exactly what happens when people at a work site talk about forming a union.

And I think we need to examine the fig leaf behind which opponents to this legislation hide. I find it asonishing that Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the faceless well heeled folks who fund this website and your activites, and the titans of industry are all of the sudden concerned about the “rights” of working people. Perhaps we should suspend our disbelief and push them a little further on this. How’s about workers get the right to vote on executive compensation, health care cuts, plant closures, underfunding pensions, leveraged buyouts? Now there’s some democracy they should fall in line to support.

But they won’t.

This fight for them is not about democracy or workers’ rights. It’s about hoarding their disproportionate share of American wealth by keeping the current system that makes it nearly impossible for a worker to organize and claim his/her share.