Live From RightOnline: The Threat of Card Check
Friday, August 14th, 2009 by AdminIt’s fitting that right out of the gate at RightOnline that card check is on the agenda. Today’s panel, introduced by Americans for Prosperity’s Phil Kerpen, has speakers Vincent Vernuccio of EFCA Update and Tim Lee of the Center for Individual Freedom.
We’re taking notes…
1:31: Phil notes the Netroots Nation panel “the secret plan to defeat the right forever” and the audience gets it immediately…
1:32 Groans from the audience on news about Arlen Specter’s recently announced decision to vote for cloture on the Employee Free Choice Act…
1:34 Vernuccio wades into card check and what it means, as well as alleged “compromise” options. EFCA as a whole is the problem, not just “card check”
1:35 Vernuccio: a vote for cloture is a vote for EFCA
1:37 Vernuccio: any idea that there won’t be coercion under card check is a fallacy
1:39 Vernuccio: card check is not dead, it is still alive, we still have to keep an eye on it … moving on to binding arbitration. “you ask many business leaders, this is even worse than card check”
1:46 Vernuccio: Union leaders NEED arbitrators to stick employees into failing pension plans
1:52 Lee: The unions will know where you live, they can approach you at the supermarket, and the SEIU’s behavior at the recent health care protest will be the kind of behavior when they approach you at home.
1:53 Lee has a great handout called “EFCA’s Toxic Arbitration Clause”
