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

Former governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday warned that the Employee Free Choice Act would “catastrophic for the economy.” Indeed, it could threaten hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of job and, therefore, could provide a very unnecessary drag on economic recovery.

At the same time, the pro-EFCA spin machine has gone back to the beginning to try to persuade the American people that card check really wouldn’t cause intimidation. Indeed, the AFL-CIO has come up with studies showing that in four states where officials have granted public sector employees, there has been little if no intimidation. Of course, public sector and private sector are two entirely different worlds and the studies are basically worthless — but that won’t stop the pro-EFCA machine from using it as grist for the mill.

As we’ve moved from the winter of labor’s discontent into Spring, the outlook for the Employee Free Choice Act’s passage has become less bouncy. The more the public learns of the bill, the less moderate politicians support it. They can do the math: effectively stealing secret ballots, imposing government-mandated arbitrators, and killing hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of jobs does not add up to good governance.

More evidence today that the public is not happy. Pennsylvanians protested EFCA this weekend, where Mitt Romney said: “I think it would have a devastating impact on the nature of business creation in this country … I think you

In this morning’s Washington Times, former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney wrote an article expressing deep concern over card check. In particular, he notes:

By tilting the playing field in favor of unions, card check not only robs workers of a secret ballot, it deprives management of the right to express its point of view. It will dramatically change the workplace as we know it, just as it’s beginning to do for charter schools in Massachusetts. Small businesses will have to hire labor lawyers and follow burdensome new rules. If the parties can’t agree on a contract, mandatory arbitration follows and employers that don’t yield to union demands will have contracts foisted on them.

All of this will raise costs, leading to more unemployment. The Labor Department reported that unemployment in February rose to 8.1 percent as American employers cut another 651,000 jobs. Unions are supposed to serve the interests of working people, yet in this case more power for the unions would help destroy many thousands of jobs throughout the economy.