Arkansas: Halter, Elliott, and EFCA

I tend not to quote myself on this blog, but I can't resist tonight: "Card check is about as popular in Arkansas as broken glass on a swimming pool deck." An integral part of the Orwellian-named Employee Free Choice Act, card check will strip workers of the right to a secret ballot election when they are asked to join a union.

Working America is toiling for EFCA. From their web site:

Working America, community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, is a powerful force for working people. We combine the strength of 10 million union men and women and millions of workers without the benefit of a workplace union who share common challenges and goals to fight in communities, states and nationally for what really matters--good jobs, affordable health care, world-class education, secure retirements, real homeland security and more.

Union support was a big reason Bill Halter was able to force Sen. Blanche Lincoln, who opposes EFCA, into a Democratic Primary runoff. Halter won't say if he's supporting card check....but unions are writing checks to his campaign.

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Joyce Elliott, a Democratic candidate for an open Arkansas congressional seat, loves EFCA.

More on Working for America from an AFL-CIO blog:

Union voters, members of the Arkansas AFL-CIO, the Alliance for Retired Americans and the AFL-CIO community affiliate, Working America, and other progressive groups are propelling Halter’s surge. In the primary, the Arkansas union-member-to-union-member voter mobilization distributed more than 172,000 worksite fliers and made more than 30,000 volunteer phone calls to union voters. Some 200 local unions contacted their members twice by mail, the Alliance for Retired Americans mobilized their 20,000 Arkansas members and Working America mobilized its 20,000 as well.

The AFL-CIO and Working for America worked together on a jobs and anti-bank program this spring, as the Fox Business Network tells us:

Ahead of the announcement next week, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka sent an email to union activists Monday asking them to start organizing for the campaign. "The AFL-CIO...has called upon the entire labor movement―our affiliated unions, our state and local labor councils, the millions of members of Working America and our allies in communities and progressive movements across this country―to come together to create and protect good jobs," Trumka wrote.

Unfortunately, EFCA will mean fewer jobs. Snap-unionization will compel employers not to hire new workers--businesses hate uncertainly, and unionization will open up a Pandora's Box of troubles. Some firms might decide to thrown in the towel.

Unions are backing Halter and Elliot so they can ram the Employee Free Choice Act down our throats.

Does that remind you of ObamaCare?

Do you want America to become a nationwide Michigan?

Related post:

Newt to Michigan: Change or decay

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