by Nicholas Beaudrot This again [emphasis mine]: "Republican strategist / anti-EFCA consultant Mike Murphy writes: ... If the AFL-CIO/Hart Research team re- tests the same ballot question they have released to the media, but adds the critical phrase "which would eliminate the secret ballot workers now utilize in most union organizing elections" to their question and then release the findings from this more accurate question to the media, I'll chip in $5,000 toward the cost of the conducting this more poll." That's generous of Mr. Murphy, except that the sentence would make the poll less accurate, EFCA doesn't do any such thing. Unions can still organize a workplace via an election. Today, if the employer agrees, they can even form a union via card check. The impact of EFCA, at least in terms of initial workplace organization, is to let workers make the choice instead of management. Concerned about non-existent union intimidation? Not a problem: we'll let you have a vote by secret ballot. Tired of endless captive audience meetings and firings of union-sympathetic employees? Go with card check and get your collective bargainers to the table post-haste. Whatever the goals of anti-EFCA forces, surely they ought to be able to win the issue without resorting to outright lies.
