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

You know, there are some very specific scripts for union officials hoping to squeak the anti-democratic, job-killing bill known euphemistically as the Employee Free Choice Act. And then there’s Guy LePage, who seems to be freelancing his advocacy of the bill in a letter to the editor.

LePage starts off with a whopper, writing “First, Employee Free Choice Act, is just that, a choice to have an election or have the card check by the employees, it’s not the choice of the union or management.”

Uhh, wrong. Once cards representing more than 50 percent of a bargaining unit are collected (even if the employees signing the card thought they would get an election) the National Labor Relations Board will declare the union up and running and shall not direct an election. Check out our full analysis of this oft-repeated myth here.

Now, we understand why union officials would like to skate on the edges of truth here — they’re pushing something that doesn’t sit well with the American public. But one thing that doesn’t sit well with the public is blaming the victim.

So it’s truly odd that LePage turns to that technique, when he writes of abused union members: “I would say that it’s the fault of any member who lets their union leaders continue in that position when they aren’t doing the job they were elected to do.”

Perhaps we should get a vote on whether that’s the kind of attitude American workers are looking for. Oh, wait, votes aren’t popular with the pro-EFCA crowd.