thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check

While the Employee Free Choice Act seems to be less popular amongst headline writers, the issue is still front and center for defending the free enterprise system. Especially because, as Politico reports, “Prospects for passage in its current form may be grim, but EFCA remains the central priority of labor.” We also wanted to point you to news that six governors are stepping forward to criticize the terrible.

National Right To Work has a new video on card check intimidation.

Associated Builders and Contractors, its member companies, and its leadership continue to educate the public about the Employee Free Choice Act’s potentially devastating consequences. Today, the Washington Examiner carries an op-ed from Miller and Long’s Brett McMahon following up on his recent blog post.

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Miller and Long’s Brett McMahon was at the Heritage Foundation’s bloggers lunch and conference call tomorrow to share Associated Builders and Contractors’ concerns about the Employee Free Choice Act. Noted labor watcher Ivan Osorio recapped the discussion:

EFCA’s card check provision helped provoke a backlash against the legislation as people found out more about it. However, EFCA’s second provision, which has not received as much attention, but could be even more devastating economically.

Just how damaging? Enough to force some healthy companies into bankruptcy, according to one businessman whose company could be severely affected. Specifically, EFCA’s binding arbitration provision could lead to newly unionized companies being forced to assume unsupportable new pension liabilities. Thus explained Brett McMahon of the construction firm Miller & Long, speaking at the Heritage Foundation this week.

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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?

Good questions:

So to recap, here