Card Check: Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing?

Saturday, July 18th, 2009 by Admin

That’s the thought over at Shopfloor, where Carter Wood writes on the curious appearance of yesterday’s front-page New York Times article on dropping card check from the sadly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act:

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3 Responses to “Card Check: Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing?”

  1. July 18th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Hilary says:

    The card check legislation would not have gotten rid of the secret ballot as the employer class has claimed repeatedly. Employees would still have had the choice to hold a secret ballot. But it would have been their choice, not the choice of the employer. Too bad our politicians and many of our citizens have been taken in by the dirty lies being spread by the US Chamber of Commerce. Have you ever seen the employer class bend over backwards to protect the interests of workers? They’re rallying against the card check legislation not to protect employees but to defend their own greedy self interest.

    There’s a reason why the decline of the labor movement has coincided with the decline of the middle class. The two go hand in hand.

    Unions result in higher wages and better benefits. Employers don’t want you to see it that way because they don’t want to pay you higher wages or give you better benefits. Simple.

    Check out France. Their standard of living is very good: they have great health care and plenty of time off. And big surprise, the country’s unions are more powerful than the unions anywhere else. When the government threatens to make life difficult for the working-class, they go on strike, shut the society down for a few days or weeks and the government backs off. France is arguably the only country on Earth where the People are actually in control.

    And, I’d like to preempt the Fox News disciples who will predictably encourage me to move to France by reminding them that by so encouraging me, they’re actually committing an ad hominem fallacy. I’d probably faint if I actually heard a coherent argument supporting the neo-liberal position.

  2. July 18th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    admin says:

    1) The “employer class” — what is this, Marxism 101? If that’s the company labor officials choose to keep, it’s an especially good thing most Americans will have the right to be protected by a secret ballot.

    2) Your language keeps popping up in a way that suggests you are either hired by pro-EFCA interests or simply spread your own version of propaganda.

    3) You are welcome to stay in the U.S. and extol the virtues of French economics, though you are likely to find few buyers for what you’re selling.

    4) It takes an amazing amount of gumption — or an amazing lack of research — to accuse employers of lying about card check when the underlying bill has clear language. It’s not an interpretation — it’s a fact. Relaying facts is not a lie. What you’re doing is close.

  3. July 20th, 2009 at 1:44 am

    Hilary says:

    The singular aim of the employer class is to get you to believe that there really is no such thing as class.

    EFCA does not eliminate the secret ballot. The choice remains with the workers.