What A Post-Card Check World Looks Like

Monday, May 31st, 2010 by Admin

It’s been light blogging here of late as news related to the Employee Free Choice Act has been something on the back burner, but it will continue to heat up as the election approaches (see this involving the Arkansas Senate race and former President Bill Clinton as example).

So it’s worth taking another look at what America would look like if EFCA’s card check provision passed.

First, the unionizing of a pot shop in Oakland, California — which acceded to a the card check demands of UFCW — has been called the “model” of organizing in America. If a weed shop is your model business, good luck convincing the rest of the world.

Then there’s this ostensible sob story told by a far-Left activist in California who appears to have a vested interest in attacking the Valero energy company:

Last August, despite 74 percent of the workers at Valero’s Texas City, Texas, signing a petition for United Steel Workers representation, the company launched an all-out effort to halt the union organization effort. Workers were subject to captive audience meetings for three weeks before the vote, one-on-one meetings with management and

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