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

You shouldn’t miss widely distributed blogger Warner Todd Huston’s take on the recent Obama Administration decision to change a decades-old rule on how unions are formed in the airline and railroad industries. He warns it’s “Obama’s first stealth EFCA styled rules implementation,” which means it’s a good reminder that the Employee Free Choice Act is still looming.

The good folks of South Carolina are still focusing on the not-yet-dead issue of the Employee Free Choice Act and are considering state-based efforts at guaranteeing the right to an employee’s private ballot election to decide whether to join a union.

The Greenville News has this opinion, which we find it hard to imagine would have very many detractors:

Workers in South Carolina

There’s a great piece over at LaborUnionReport.com, which has this set up:

Given the above, one would

Two brief bits of news for you this fine morning.

First, in Nevada, “Group plans petitions on secret ballots, paycheck deductions.”

Meanwhile, “Fearing lack of support, communications union bosses are attempting to rig election employees initiated to throw out unwanted union.”

It never ends, does it?

It wasn’t so long ago, really, that we wrote in an update on goings-on related to the Employee Free Choice and card check that:

Meanwhile, some are still fighting absurd battles. Media Matters for America is still claiming EFCA wouldn

It won’t, but that’s the very reasonable question from Rep. John Kline — readers of this blog will remember him well.

The setting for the question came at a House hearing at which Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis testified about her ongoing work. The Wall Street Journal had the Kline recap:

Meanwhile, Rep. John Kline (R., Minn.), the senior Republican on the House Education Committee, applauded the Obama administration for taking action to ease unemployment numbers, but criticized the controversial Employee Free Choice Act, which could make it easier for workers to join unions.

“I cannot help but question many of [the president's] proposed policies that seem to run contrary to the goal of job creation and economic certainty,” Mr. Kline said. He later added, “The question remains: how will ‘card check’ create and sustain jobs?”

Those who oppose EFCA have said the legislation could likely stump job growth, business activity and investments.

The truth, of course, is that EFCA will kill jobs and once again assault the free enterprise system. So long as jobs remain high on the administration’s agenda, EFCA should be at the bottom.

Come to think of it, EFCA should always be at the bottom of the agenda. That should simplify things nicely.