EFCA Proponents On The March
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 by adminSomewhere between feigning confidence and exuding confidence is where organized labor’s spokespeople reside these days on the likelihood of passing the Employee Free Choice Act. Here is the latest chatter:
- SEIU president Andy Stern recently told Twitter readers he’s feeling “no lack of political Support”
- SEIU has released a piece of YouTube propaganda mocking warnings from the business community. The union attempted to paint critics of the bill as Big Business, even though it will be thousands of small and medium-sized businesses — along with tens of millions of employees — who will suffer from EFCA.
- Today in West Virginia the AFL-CIO will hold a rally at the Capitol to pass EFCA and “Turn America Around.”
- The AFL-CIO, American Rights At Work, and Center for Economic and Policy Research will release further “evidence” of the need for EFCA during a conference call.
- Rumors continue to swirl that the bill will be introduced Monday, March 9.
- UPDATE: Yesterday President Obama promised in a videotaped speech to the AFL-CIO executive council to “pass the Employee Free Choice Act” and said, “I want you to know that you will always have a seat at the table.”
It’s clear EFCA’s proponents will continue to make their case publicly, even as the bill threatens to further weaken our economy, cost jobs, and threaten the right to a private ballot for working Americans. Which is a good reason to pass along this information from the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (in a release from yesterday):
In polling conducted for CDW in January by McLaughlin & Associates, nearly three-quarters (74%) of union households were opposed to the card check provisions in the Employee Free Choice Act. An overwhelming 88% of union households believed that a worker’s vote should be kept private during a union organizing election, and 85% of union households believed that a secret ballot election is the best way to protect the individual rights of workers when they are deciding whether to join a union.
Tags: Propaganda
