Instead of workers utilizing secret ballot election to decide if they want to join a union, labor bosses want to utilize "card check," a free-to-peek petition drive that just invites abuse by organizations such as SEIU.
But moderate Democrats voting for an EFCA bill with a card check provision could put their careers in the check-out line, so card check may be replaced with something else. Essentially it will be card check, but not called card check.
Whatever it's called, card check is a monumentally unpopular notion--even rank-and-file union members agree, as the American Spectator tells us:
Over 60 percent of Americans favor the use of secret ballots in unionization elections, while only about 30 percent support card check as an alternative, the most recent Rasmussen Reports survey shows. Another poll organized through the National Retail Federation (NRF) found that union and non-union members oppose card check in roughly equal measure.
Almost 82 percent of non-union members favored keeping the secret ballot in comparison with almost 84 percent of union members, according to NRF data.
Even so, EFCA remains the top legislative priority for organized labor, which contributed substantial sums to congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration.
In the 2008 election cycle, labor union political action committees (PACS) contributed over $66 million dollars to congressional candidates with 92 percent of those contributions going to Democrats, according to OpenSecrets.org. Labor PACs also contributed $531,711 to Barack Obama that same year, the most of any U.S. senator.
Mandatory arbitration is another vile tentacle of EFCA, and there are plenty more of them, as you'll read below.
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