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

We doubt it. But props to Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association, for trying when he argues that if the president is serious about creating jobs, then the last thing he should be considering is the Employee Free Choice Act:

Take “Card Check” off the table. Entrepreneurial companies are less likely to hire people if they face a secret unionization movement. Unions are looking backward – rather than focusing on creating next-generation jobs. They are seeking to swell their ranks through anti-democratic and bureaucratic maneuvering. Union membership is falling because workers in an innovation economy need the flexibility to adapt their jobs to address market demands. Unions kill innovation.

Wow. Them’s are fightin words for union officials, but he’s correct about the job-killing nature of the bill and the nature of special-interest lobbying by Big Labor.

We can’t wait to see how Huffington Post readers will react.

Game on!

The GOP side of the Committee on Education and Labor has a great post up on the Employee Free Choice Act vs. jobs. As the Administration hosts businesses and many, many labor leaders — who are pushing EFCA — the committee staff notes that there’s just one problem: “EFCA itself would be a significant hurdle for the job creation the President and his allies at the summit claim to be pursuing.”

One of four Democratic politicians hoping to fill the vacant seat left by the late Ted Kennedy has received a glowing personal portrait about his efforts to live up to Kennedy’s legacy, especially with respect to the sadly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act.

The Valley Advocate writes of Mike Capuano:

“I think that actually one of the problems in this country right now is that too few people are organized,” said Capuano, noting that the rise in union membership in the U.S. corresponded with the rise of the middle class

ABC member Miller & Long’s Brett McMahon was quoted today offering his analysis on the future of card check and “compromise”:

The compromise being considered on Capitol Hill calls for workforce representation elections to be held 10 days after 30 percent of workers sign cards in favor of organizing. Although the card check phrase would be dropped, the legislation would be still very weighted against business, Greg Mourad, director of legislation for NRTW, has observed.

“This so called compromise is really just window dressing,” he said. “These quick snap elections would give the unions as much time as they want to propagandize the workforce and collect petitions, while the other side has just 10 days. The current average is 42 days when petitions are turned in to when elections take place and we think this is a reasonable time frame.”

Brett McMahon, vice-president of Miller and Long, a Maryland-based concrete construction company, concurs. The maneuvering on card check and proposed substitution of new, seemingly benign language is a typical labor tactic, he warned.

“They usually give ground on one of their most unreasonable demands after all the objections have been made,” he said. “Then they come back with something even worse and claim the moral high ground for having ‘compromised’ on their first demand.”

Amity Schlaes is the latest to report that the future of card check via the Employee Free Choice Act is murky, thanks in large part to public opposition to the anti-democratic, job-killing nature of the bill. Schlaes, in an interesting big-picture analysis of the Obama presidency and whether it will track back to the political center, writes:

Six weeks into the job, Obama was telling labor leaders he was sure that the Democrats