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

LRIonline has found documents showing the National Labor Relations Board is looking into the workability of electronic voting system and concludes: “Make no mistake. If unions can

The Washington Examiner, always a fine read, has an editorial this morning about the $10 million in flushed union dues dollars that Big Labor bosses wasted on running a challenger to Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln. The editorial concludes with this cost estimate:

Big Labor has spent an estimated $400 million since 2006 seeking to elect enough Democrats to assure that card check becomes law. Just last month, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ Gerald McEntee said his union would spend another $50 million trying to protect Democratic incumbents in 2010. Here’s to hoping card check opponents in every congressional district in America make ‘em flush it all.

There’s an interesting angle here, and that is what lessons will come from this week’s results. Will candidates realize that they can, indeed, defy powerful labor bosses on the issue of card check? There are certainly a few whispers that are promising.

On the flip side, have union bosses learned not to throw away millions of their members’ hard-earned dues dollars? Have they learned that they can’t force through the most anti-business, anti-jobs, anti-competition political candidates?

Frankly, based on this story in Politico, the simple answer is that it doesn’t seem Big Labor has learned any lessons at all. SEIU’s new president said, “We

LaborUnionReport.com is helping lead the charge against card check-by-fiat and its personification, National Labor Relations Board member Craig Becker. The site points out that Becker is backtracking on an important promise he made to recuse himself from cases involving his former employer, the highly powerful Service Employee International Union.

Now Shopfloor’s Carter Wood is adding two very valuable cents, pointing out that Becker’s ethics pledge looked like swiss cheese, opining: “Well, if you

In close races things can get ugly. Just ask the Democrats in the primary for the Arkansas Senate seat. And as races get closer, and uglier, important issues take on a starring role. In this case, the fight is over card check — as with its legislative embodiment, the Employee Free Choice Act — is turning into a proxy over how much power union officials should have to shape the work lives of Americans and our economy.

Indeed, the New York Times and its top labor reporter writes, “The unions have made the race here the centerpiece of a new effort to hold union-backed candidates accountable for their votes after they are elected.”

Union officials claim Sen. Blanche Lincoln has not shown enough support for the measure, which is one reason unions are spending millions and millions of their members dues dollars to try to run her out of office. Meanwhile, her challenger and union favorite, Bill Halter, is doing his best just not to answer any questions about his stance on card check. Who can blame him? It’s a no-win situation: either do right by Americans and condemn card check or get booted from the Big Labor gravy train.

Somehow the fight has turned into one of Bill Halter and President Obama on one side and Sen. Lincoln and former President (and Arkansas governor) Bill Clinton on the other. Here’s the former president’s thoughts, which have been turned into a TV ad:

In Kentucky, card check is a political issue: “Group launched to stop legislation that would make union organizing easier”

Keith Smith from the National Association of Manufacturers reports on Senate maneuverings to seat the highly controversial union attorney Craig Becker on the National Labor Relations Board.

It’s another reminder, as Smith notes, that Becker is the embodiment of the ill-designed, ill-intended, job-killing, anti-democracy Employee Free Choice Act and Big Labor is intent on making sure its seat at the table — and National Labor Relations Board — ends up in passing EFCA by that name or another.