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

SEIU is running some powerful quotes from the President, who says he’s a “pro-union guy.”

Lots of quotes worthy of note …

But a lot of things that we’re doing have to do with how is the Department of Labor operating to make sure that workplace safety rules are enforced; to make sure that if the federal government is helping to finance a program, that we’ve got a project labor agreement in place that assures that people are paid a decent wage and they’re getting a fair deal. Who am I appointing to the National Labor Relations Board, so that when a union tries to organize, it doesn’t take five years before you can even get a ruling, and then it turns out that the ruling somehow conveniently always is against the union.

And this view of economics …

And sometimes people say, well, unions are what’s making us not competitive. Well, that’s just not true. Unions are only, at this point in the private sector, probably less than 10 percent of the economy. So the notion that somehow that’s what is creating competition with other countries that pay lower wages, that’s not the case. The fact of the matter is that is what’s going to help us become competitive is if we’ve got middle-class workers making middle-class wages with middle-class benefits, who can then go out and shop, and support a family, and buy a new car and pay their mortgage, which will create more business opportunities and maintain America as the greatest market on Earth. And if we do that, then we’re going to be successful.”

And then there’s this:

Now, look, some people don’t want unions, and that’s great. If you feel that you can look after your own interests, I respect that. But what we — but one of the things that we stand for as Americans is the freedom to decide I’m going to join with my brothers and sisters at that workplace to try to get a better deal — not through force, not through coercion, but just by us agreeing to bargain. And we just want to make sure that there’s a level playing field in that process. That’s something that I strongly believe in, and it’s part of the American tradition.

Notice that “not through force, not through coercion” part? So did we. It’s unfortunate that those reasonable values haven’t led to a vocal rebuke of the Employee Free Choice Act, which the president says he supports. EFCA is all about taking away the voice of an individual worker who doesn’t “want unions” and that’s not great.

This is a case where rhetoric and policy aren’t matching up.