Card Check, Hissing, Booing and Foot Stomping

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 by admin

Remember those Pennsylvania union demonstrations involving union activists booing and shouting down those who disagreed with them, and the subsequent question we raised about what that portends for a post-card check world?

Well, one of our readers with a particularly good memory pointed us to a video of Sen. Tom Harkin — the Senate’s point man on the Employee Free Choice Act — earlier this year telling a Senate committee hearing room that “I don’t want to permit any hissing or booing or foot-stomping or throwing of things like that.” (Link here, see minute 43:00)

First it was the good Senator supporting secret ballots, which EFCA would effectively eliminate. Now he’s concerned about the exact type of behavior recently demonstrated by organized labor and the reason for concern in doing away with secret ballots. Once again, we find ourselves agreeing whole-heartedly with Sen. Harkin on key principles. We continue to hope those statements will inform his positions on the terrifyingly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act.

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