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

ABC 2010 national chairman Jim Elmer writes about project labor agreements and card check over at the Seattle Times. Pertinent to our interests:

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would strip a worker’s fundamental American right to a federally supervised secret-ballot election when deciding whether to join a labor union and replace it with a “card check” system. This would leave the worker vulnerable to coercion and harassment by union officials. EFCA could also force workers and businesses into binding wage and benefit contracts. These contracts would be set by a government bureaucrat with no required knowledge of the industry and would be binding for two years. Studies have shown that if EFCA became law, 600,000 jobs would be lost in the first year alone.

Entire article here.

California’s card check bill — yes, the one that was vetoed by the Governator — is saying, “I’ll be back,” according to the Capital Press.

The Governor was to be commended for vetoing the bill last time because card check is just plain bad.

Then again, unions in California aren’t known for being great on the economic outlook:

The Daily Labor Report today has this interesting item:

At the request of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the National Labor Relations Board’s inspector general has launched an investigation on whether Member Craig Becker should have recused himself in a case involving St. Barnabas Hospital and Local 1957 of the Service Employees International Union.

… and …

In a June 15 letter to the inspector general, Issa formally requested that Berry investigate whether Becker’s participation in the unfair labor practice case against St. Barnabas

Be sure to check out this great little article on how card check and it’s continued looming threat create a drag on stocks (which millions of Americans count on for their retirement)

We pointed to this story, which says “card check lives.” A friend of this blog suggested the following movie to accompany (thanks, Ben!)

According to The Washington Examiner’s David Freddoso, Sen. Tom Harkin “is now openly discussing the possibility of passing pro-union legislation after voters have already rendered a verdict on the union-friendly 111th Congress.” Harkin today told The Hill that: