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Check out this letter suggesting the Employee Free Choice Act doesn’t live up to international labor standards.

This is a doozy:

Regarding the April 29 letter to the editor from Bob Guilfoyle of Shepherd on the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, Guilfoyle accuses me of “gross misinterpretation of the facts.”
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He asks me to tell it like it really is, so I will use his example and “imagine a U.S. serviceman returning from Iraq.”

Mr. Guilfoyle, imagine that veteran, defending our right to free speech and free elections, coming home only to find American employers and employees have lost those very rights to union organizers because of EFCA. Not only that, but if they are small business owners themselves, they do not have to be informed of a unionization effort in their own business. They might also now have their own government dictating a union contract in their workplace. Plus, they will now be subjected to increased fines and penalties, possibly for minor and procedural violations.

THAT really is how the Employee Free Choice Act would “work” for America. Contact our U.S. senators and tell them, “not in my country!”

A letter from Lafayette, Louisiana resident Joyce Thomas calls on her fellow citizens to do their part and urge Sen. Mary Landrieu to oppose card check for a number of reasons. Thomas urges:

There is talk that our own U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu may end up casting the deciding vote to determine whether this bill will pass. Therefore, I suggest that those of us who are against this forced unionism bill express our feelings by calling Sen. Mary Landrieu, as well as our other senators and representatives, urging them to vote against this union boss power bill.

Sounds like a good idea to us. The fight over the Employee Free Choice Act is far from over. There is still misguided whispering for “compromise” — but there can be no compromise on a bill this bad.

Connie Feist writes in the Bismarck Tribune yesterday:

I was raised in Butte, Mont., and many people in my family are union members. Butte is a town with a strong labor history and people there are proud of their union affiliations. However, while union membership is valued by many in my hometown, they also place equal value on their individual rights. The card-check provision outlined in the EFCA bill erodes each person’s right to privacy. The idea of forcing a public declaration of one’s intentions in voting, whether it be voting to unionize, voting for the local dog catcher or voting for the next president of the United States, challenges the very freedom that defines our democracy.

While I grew up in a union household, my husband and I are now proud to own a business in Minot that provides a living for many employees. We have an open-door workplace, where employees feel free to come to us to discuss job duties, performance issues, wages and benefits. We know this is the case because it occurs on a regular basis. The EFCA would essentially slam shut such an open-door policy.

Keep up the letters to your own editors and elected officials. Use our site if it’s helpful. Just get engaged!

Followers of this blog will most likely have read enough stories about the Employee Free Choice Act to know that its advocates rely heavily on stereotypes of big corporate titans — not exactly the image of Associated Builders and Contractors members, many of whom are small businesspeople and all of whom are hardworking entrepreneurs.

So we thought we should share this letter running in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from one person fed up with the stereotypes:

The secretary-treasurer of the Georgia AFL-CIO describes opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act with the obligatory evil grouping of “corporate front groups, billionaire investors and many corporate CEOs” (“Chamber no friend of Free Choice Act,” Letters, March 16). Should we then call the proponents of EFCA “thugs, criminals and Jimmy-Hoffa-types” since in the history of labor unions there have been multiple examples of all three?

When the letter writer shows an interest in ending the childish name-calling and demonstrates a willingness to start an actual dialogue, perhaps he can answer why membership in labor unions has been in a steady decline since the 1960s, why unions are so determined to destroy the secret ballot in company elections and why union members get zero say in how their collected dues are spent. Facts are stubborn things.

ALLAN DeNIRO

Roswell