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That The Crypt would simply offer this as an aside is evidence of how fully the media has bought into the Chamber of Commerce's description of card check legislation
And, of course, Boehner had to take a shot at card-check, the Democrats' legislation to ease union-organizing requirements by allowing labor leaders to forgo a secret-ballot election. "Ironically, the decision [to replace Dingell] was made in a secret ballot election — a process that Democrats want to end in workplaces across America to help one of those special interests."Card check doesn't allow labor leaders to forgo anything. It allows workers to do so. The Employee Free Choice Act does nothing to modify the National Labor Relation Act's provision ensuring that if 30 percent of workers want a secret ballot election, one will be held. That could even happen after a card check election. If three-of-ten workers are unhappy, they can call the union into question in a secret ballot election. Let me state that again, and clearly: Card check does not end the secret ballot. What card check does allow, however, is for workers to forgo the long, drawn out election in which employers routinely fire union supporters, intimidate workers, put the union supporters on awful shifts as a warning, hire unionbusting consultants, and so on, and so forth. Power matters, and in a workplace, employers have plenty of it. But it's extremely odd to watch the Chamber of Commerce abruptly discover a deep-seated concern for the labor rights of workers. They're spending tens of millions to fight card check, but they are somehow unruffled that 25 percent of employers illegally fire workers who try to form a union. Why, it's as if they're not interested in worker's rights, or free and fair elections, at all!
