Posted on 11/10/2010 2:27:44 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Is card check dead? Not completely, but if the recent votes on various state ballot initiatives of four states is any indication it sure seems to be on its last legs.
Little noticed by the Old Media, the ballot initiatives of these four states is an important bellwether of how little support Big Labor's favorite law will have going forward. On November 2 four states voted by great margins to protect the secret ballot and these reasserted protections would tend to deliver a blow to one of the Democrat's important provisions of card check, a provision that would eliminate the secret ballot for prospective union members.
Card check is one of the main parts of Big Labor's Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The provision would eliminate a secret ballot for prospective union members as they decide on representation. Under the EFCA, votes for union representation would be an open issue. Every employee's vote would be clearly known by all involved. This open voting (or the public checking of a vote card or ballot) would clearly leave employees open for harassment by union officials who would be fully aware of each employees individual votes, if they voted for or against the union. For that matter, even the employer would have knowledge of who voted for what under the EFCA....
And the bad news for union members is that their leaders just squandered a crapload of their pension money on a failed campaign expenditure.
That may be bad news for the members, but no one there seems to care. And there will be millions more going to Dummicrats ASAP, too.
You seem to have forgotten to post several paragraphs.
Why might that be?
Is there something wrong with them?
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