Card Check Will Not Give Up The Ghost
Friday, May 7th, 2010 by AdminThe Washington Examiner has an editorial that (literally) offers the warning that card check isn’t dead. The paper argues that while the Employee Free Choice Act has moved to the back burner:
… Trumka and Big Labor aren’t giving up, they’re just switching strategies. The new plan is to attach card check to another, must-pass bill before the November elections, which look likely to send legions of new Republicans to Washington who will vote against the proposal. Thus Trumka told the Hill: “Anything we can get it attached to, there are multitudes of things we can get it attached to, and we will. We will get it done and it will be a good thing for the country.”
No, passage of card check would benefit only union bosses like Trumka, who heads an organization that once stood atop a labor movement that represented one of every three American workers. But today only 7 percent of all private-sector employees belong to unions. That’s why the labor bosses are determined to stamp out secret ballots in the workplace when employees vote on whether to join a union. It’s so much easier for union thugs to intimidate employees when everybody knows how everybody else is voting.
Good points, which is why we return to cinema for our favorite explanation of this issue.
