The Good, Bad & Ugly of Card-Check

Real Clear Politics, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review by Salena Zito | Dec. 7, 2008 (Opinion)

Is it pay-back time or about time? When it comes to "card-check," slang for the Employee Free-Choice Act - one of the first pieces of legislation likely to go before Congress when it reconvenes in January - it depends on who you ask.

Today, if a union organizer goes into a workplace and gets 30 percent of the employees to sign a "union interest" card, an election is ordered by the National Labor Relations Board. A secret-ballot vote is held six ... Full Story »

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The amount of space given to the various positions and the writer's implications show an anti-unon bias Corporations disproportionate bargaining power over individual workers is not mentioned. Corporate firings of union organizers is not mentioned. Corporate intimidation of pro-union workers is not mentioned. The refusal of corporations to bargain a contract with newly voted in unions is not mentioned. Corporations outsourcing work to cheap labor elsewhere without a voice from ... More »

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