Former Union Leader Opposes Card Check Bill

Amazing - someone found one shop steward who opposed EFCA. That hardly makes your case, now, does it? Maybe he is being paid, like Saul Anuzis - who also used to be in a union. How how doubly amazing that this hithertofore unkown person was found and reported on in Arkansas. Arkansas....I seem to recall there being an incredibly large and powerful corporation in Arkansas that is dead set against EFCA. Newt is paying Saul Anuzis to come on this board to attack EFCA - ever wonder who is paying Newt?

Oh yes, I remember now - it is Wal-Mart!  From that commie pinko WSJ:

August 1, 2008 Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including Wal-Mart.

In recent weeks, thousands of Wal-Mart store managers and department heads have been summoned to mandatory meetings at which the retailer stresses the downside for workers if stores were to be unionized.

According to about a dozen Wal-Mart employees who attended such meetings in seven states, Wal-Mart executives claim that employees at unionized stores would have to pay hefty union dues while getting nothing in return, and may have to go on strike without compensation. Also, unionization could mean fewer jobs as labor costs rise.

The actions by Wal-Mart -- the nation's largest private employer -- reflect a growing concern among big business that a reinvigorated labor movement could reverse years of declining union membership. That could lead to higher payroll and health costs for companies already being hurt by rising fuel and commodities costs and the tough economic climate.

The Wal-Mart human-resources managers who run the meetings don't specifically tell attendees how to vote in November's election, but make it clear that voting for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama would be tantamount to inviting unions in, according to Wal-Mart employees who attended gatherings in Maryland, Missouri and other states.

"The meeting leader said, 'I am not telling you how to vote, but if the Democrats win, this bill will pass and you won't have a vote on whether you want a union,'" said a Wal-Mart customer-service supervisor from Missouri. "I am not a stupid person. They were telling me how to vote," she said.

How's that for company that reveres the sanctity of the election process?

You wrote:

"There's still much work ahead to defeat this un-American and anti-democratic law."

Summary of EFCA:

Under the proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), if the NLRB verifies that over 50% of the employees signed authorization cards, the secret ballot election is bypassed and a union is automatically formed. Introduced in the U.S. Congress in 2005 and reintroduced in 2007 and 2009, the EFCA provides that the NLRB would recognize the union's role as the official bargaining representative if a majority of employees have authorized that representation via majority sign-up (card check), without requiring a secret ballot election.[1][2] Under The EFCA, if over 30% and less than 50% of employees sign a petition or authorization cards, the NLRB would still order a secret ballot election for union representation. In other words, the current threshold to have a secret ballot election is signatures from 30% of employees. The EFCA would keep that threshold, but make a new threshold of signatures from 50% + 1 of employees to bypass the secret ballot election and automatically be unionized. Therefore a petition signature would have the same weight as a "yes" vote in a secret ballot election.

How does "un-american" or "anti-democratic" apply here? You might gain more traction with something a little more explanatory of your reasoning then resorting to these empty slogans. At least with me. At present you are sounding a bit knee-jerk and flag-waving. I suspect that you are being disengenuous in opposing EFCA. I am thinking you oppose organized labor and will use any ruse you can find to keep weakening it.

No.  Almost all major newspapers are pro-business.

WTH, do you know the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial pages are almost 100% pro-business and pro-right wing and anti-union, is second-most in circulation in the entire United States?

Guess not.

I am strongly opposed to the card check bill.I do not believe the “tail should wag the dog”.These unions have forced the price of goods up by forcing labor costs up thus slowing spending by consumers.

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How on earth Catlett doesn’t argue with union leaders who say the current labor rules make it too tough and are tilted in the favor of business. But he says card check is the wrong way to create a more level playing field. And he also says unions use the same coercion and intimidation used by business owners.

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