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Card-Check Backers Launch Campaign
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Card-Check Backers Launch Campaign Backers of legislation that would make it easier for unions to organize are launching a campaign to convince people that the Employee Free Choice Act does not technically eliminate secret-ballot elections. Business groups and Republicans have strongly denounced the legislation, also known as card-check, because it would allow unions bypass holding a secret ballot election and form a union simply by having workers sign petition cards. Current law allows business leaders to insist on holding a secret ballot election and that right would disappear if the bill is signed into law. Pro-labor action group American Rights at Work, which announced a ...
Ad Promoting Employee Free Choice Act Directed At Journos
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
The pro-labor organization American Rights at Work announced today that they will be launching an advertising campaign to promote the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the centerpiece of which is a television ad called "The Real Secret." The advertisement does a succinct job in laying out its central point, which is that the conversation of EFCA has thus far been dominated by big business, which has tirelessly and falsely contended that EFCA would deny workers the right to unionize via a secret ballot. In reality, EFCA will allow workers to do just that, but on their own terms, not the terms of their bosses.
But, to echo Greg Sargent, what's really interesting ...
Ad Promoting Employee Free Choice Act Directed At Journos
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
The pro-labor organization American Rights at Work announced today that they will be launching an advertising campaign to promote the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the centerpiece of which is a television ad called "The Real Secret." The advertisement does a succinct job in laying out its central point, which is that the conversation of EFCA has thus far been dominated by big business, which has tirelessly and falsely contended that EFCA would deny workers the right to unionize via a secret ballot. In reality, EFCA will allow workers to do just that, but on their own terms, not the terms of their bosses.
But, to echo Greg Sargent, what's really interesting ...
McCaskill Says Some Senate Republicans Support Employee Free Choice
Firedoglake —
Parsing Obama's silence is always a risky game, but some opponents of Employee Free Choice just feel compelled to try and find some comfort there. But buried in Sam Stein's interview with Claire McCaskill about limiting executive compensation for TARP recipients was this exchange, where she ...
Gee, I thought I Was Voting For A Democrat In November, Not A Post-Partisan-- 1,445 Days 'Til We Get Another Chance
DownWithTyranny! —
Will Obama roll over on Hilda Solis' nomination? Hard to imagine that the President of the United States-- even a post-partisan wimpy one who is apparently keeping his powder bone dry for something important (I can't wait to find out what's important enough for him to fight for)-- offers someone a great Cabinet job that they're not remotely qualified for ...
Is There Any Truth In What The Republicans And Their Media Mouthpieces Say About The Employee Free Trade Act?
DownWithTyranny! —
It always surprises me when some self-professed dittohead or admitted O'Reilly fan wanders over to DWT and spews out some Republican Party talking points in the comments section. More often than not I just leave them up as entertainment (unless there's too much of that old fashioned GOP racism and bigotry). Well, since the GOP's top talking points these days are all about the Employee Free Choice Act, we figured we'd try to put together some of the antidotes to Limbaugh's and his congressional followers' lies about unions-- a kind of public service to wingnuts and people who have to put up with wingnut brothers-in-law. First, in the way of ...
Wingers Now Admit Employee Free Choice Act Doesn't Eliminate Secret Ballots After All-- After 3 Years Of Lying About It!
DownWithTyranny! —
Although the Republican talking points laid out for Republican members of Congress by Limbaugh, Coulter and Beck, claiming that the poor caused the housing crisis have been thoroughly discredited and debunked, it took the editorial page of today's Wall Street Journal to finally lay to rest the equally false Limbaughism that the Employee Free Choice Act would end the secret ballot in the workplace. In a piece titled "Unionize or Die," the conservative, business-friendly scribes of the Journal admit that the legislation will not eliminate the secret ballot but rather allow workers to choose between that or a majority-sign up ...
