Some positive news on the Card Check issue
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
01/29/09 5:04 PM EST
There are rumblings about on Capitol Hill that suggest the irresistable tide pushing passage of the horribly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act - aka Card Check - is beginning to slow down a bit. For one thing, the opposition is beginning to lob some heavy artillery at EFCA in the form of a new national survey and a national ad campaign based on the results.
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace's Brian Worth describes the new ads as reinforcing the fact "that Big Labor’s sales campaign about the job-killing Employee Free Choice Act isn’t working. Our polling shows that workers overwhelmingly reject attempts by union bosses to replace secret ballot elections with their card-check scheme.”
Specifically, the CDW spots highlight EFCA advocates problem with rank and file workers:
* 85% of union households favor having a federally supervised election as a means to “protect the individual rights of workers” and clearly see secret ballot elections as a basic right.
* 65% of union members would be less likely to vote for a member of Congress who voted to take away the secret ballot.
* Further exemplifying union worker distaste for the Employee Free Choice Act, 72% agreed that the binding arbitration provision in the legislation is “unwise” and “risky”.
* Despite opposition from their own rank and file workers, labor bosses have made support for the EFCA, or “card check” bill, a top priority this year and are pressuring Congress to act quickly to pass it. Unfortunately for Big Labor, 79% of union workers and voters want Congress to focus on other issues like jobs and healthcare.
The media is beginning to pay attention to EFCA, too. I did an interview earlier today on Fox Business News, which you can view below.
Also, some of the less liberal Democrats in the House and Senate are having second thoughts, especially those in the 22 states that have Right to Work laws. This editorial in the Examiner earlier this week summarizes things rather effectively.
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