Politics

Real Clear Markets: Card Check Workers Can Only Check In

Real Clear Markets
By Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Stock markets are near their lowest levels in years, the federal budget deficit has shot to an all-time high, consumer confidence is at a record low, the unemployment rate has been rising and hit 8.1% in February, and over four million jobs have disappeared in the past year. Yet on March 10 congressional Democrats introduced in the House and Senate the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act.

Contrary to its name, the bill?s main thrust is not to widen employees’ choices, but to narrow them. It eliminates the secret ballot for union elections. Under the law now, if a sufficient number of workers petition the National Labor Relations Board to join a union, the Board conducts an election”by secret ballot”to see if a majority wants a unionized shop.

Full post as published by Mike Conaway's Blog on March 17, 2009 (boomark / email).