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

The drumbeat continues: “Support for healthcare and ‘card check’ legislation would weigh on Sen. Michael Bennet’s (D-Colo.) reelection chances, a new poll found Friday.”

That’s the word from The Hill’s Mike O’Brien, who continues:

The Colorado Democrat’s reelection prospects could hinge on two key issues, though: the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and healthcare reform legislation.

When read a description of EFCA, 66 percent of Coloradans said they’d prefer a candidate who would vote against the union organizing bill, compared to 29 percent who said they would prefer a candidate who supports the ‘card check’ bill.

When read description of key components of the bill, the card check provision and the binding arbitration provision, almost 2/3rds of voters expressed disapproval in the poll, which was commissioned by the anti-EFCA Workforce Fairness Institute and conducted by Public Opinion Strategies.

This is just the latest example of voters clearly signaling their displeasure with EFCA. Virginia‘s gubernatorial victor was incontrovertible evidence, and this year we’ve heard similar tales from Kansas, Nevada, and now Colorado.

When will our elected leaders start listening? When they’re un-elected?

Virginia is nearly the definition of a political “swing state.” If you don’t believe us, just check out the truthiness of Wikipedia. It has two Democratic Senators and, until, November, a Democratic Governor. But it’s a business-friendly state, too, and has been recognized as the best state in the union for business by CNBC.

So what should it tell political watchers that a swing state elected its new governor in large part on his opposition to policy proposals like card check (via the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act)? There’s no doubt that Governor-elect Bob McDonnell made card check a key of his campaign.

And now the state’s recently elected Attorney General hints that he still views opposition to card check as a political winner. The Washington Times reports:

In the Republican state senator’s acceptance speech after winning the election in November, he promised to fight for Virginians

As we’ve been following, Gov-elect Bob McDonnell won his Virginia race in large part because of his positions on key national issues such as the terrifyingly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act. Since his win, McDonnell has not let up on those issues, reiterating this Sunday:

“Bills like card check, cap-and-trade, some of the unfunded mandates on business and the stimulus bill, some of the other micromanagement of the free enterprise system, significant tax increases, those are the things that I don’t think are good for our citizens or good for our business.”

We were glad the voters of Virginia, in choosing McDonnell, rejected card check and the Employee Free Choice Act. We are even more glad that McDonnell is keeping the heat on the issue — it could serve as a lesson for politicians facing their own battles in 2010.

Card check was the gift that kept on giving for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell.

Amanda Carpenter reports on “EFCA

It’s not just Virginia’s gubernatorial race that is considering key issues related to workplace flexibility — now card check and the state’s right-to-work law are making their presence a key fight in the race for attorney general.

The News-Virginian points out the positions of Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Steve Shannon:

Cuccinelli said Shannon is focusing on one part of the job. Cuccinelli fully expects constitutional challenges if elected, including the threat of federal card-check legislation to Virginia

This weekend the Employee Free Choice Act popped up again in Virginia’s newspapers. This time it was First Piedmont Corp’s Ben J. Davenport laying out the case against the sequel to EFCA, “EFCA 2: More of the Same Same.” Davenport eyes possible alternatives being floated around D.C. corridors:

One provision would shorten the timing of union elections from the current time frame of 42 days to only 5 to 10 days after a union files a petition for election with the NLRB.

So why do the unions want to speed up the time to just a few days? The current system gives both sides ample time to present information to the employees and give them an opportunity to ask questions and challenge the validity of assertions from both sides. Common sense should tell you that 5 to 10 days is not enough time to debate an issue of this importance and make an informed decision. Of course, unions know that the more informed employees become, the less likely they are to vote for a union.

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