Today’s Washington Post (12/9/08) features an article on the possibilities for Employee Free Choice Act– a measure that would recognize card-check unionization drives. EFCA has been pushed by labor groups and their allies, and the Post envisions the real battle is to come–hence the headline, “Battle Deepens Over Union Organizing: Labor May Be Key Issue for New Congress.”
But in the Post, it’s not much of a battle at all–judging, at least, by whom the paper decides to quote. Three critics of the measure are cited: Rick Berman of the Center for Union Facts, Katie Packer of the Workforce Fairness Institute and Republican political strategist Mark McKinnon. Weighing in for other side is one source–Greg Denier of the labor group Change to Win–who is quoted in the second-to-last paragraph of the story.
You know, this is exactly the problem with commercial media in the US. It’s completely slanted against the American people.
By the way, the EFCA does not “do away with the right to a secret ballot election” as the forces of darkness and mass media manipulation continue to claim.
On the contrary, the EFCA gives the choice to have an election to recognize a union for purposes of collective bargaining to the employees. Anybody who wants to insist on an election — employees or employer — can get one within a ninety day window after a majority of authorization cards have been signed, by simply filing a petition with the NLRB.