Steve Forbes: Card Check “not dead”
By Brian Kirwin | Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | PolicySteve Forbes said that the battle over Card Check is not done, even with some major defections from the pro-union camp in the US Senate.
Forbes called the card check the “Employee Forced Choice Act” since it does away with a secret ballot for a formation of a union. He called it “a Soviet Style union election” with the elimination of the usual secret ballot to start a union.
Forbes also attacked the part of the bill that provides forces federal government arbitration of labor negotiations as damaging to business, especially small business.
Mark McKinnon of the Workforce Fairness Institute called it a “Labor bailout bill” to save unions from their dwindling membership numbers. Government arbitration means more labor disputes, with unions knowing the government will impose more pro-union solutions to wage and benefits negotiations than true collective bargaining would ever give them.
Brian Kirwin (who gets more brilliant the more I read him) of Bearing Drift even got in a question.
“To paraphrase the Princess Bride, is card check dead, or is it only mostly dead?
Here in Virginia, our two Senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner, are tap dancing around the issue. How can we nudge them into taking a position, and one that the voters agree with?”
Forbes replied, “If they feel that this is something that might get pushed through, they might hold their noses and do it, and figure it’s like an operation without anesthesia. Do it quickly and make up for it later.”
“Even though opposition is mounting, it won’t be dead until enough people come out firmly against it. Until this thing in under the ground with a stake through its heart, we can not rest.”
Find more about Card Check at www.Workforcefairness.com and contact your Senators, even the “radical centrists” and make them tell you their positions. Despite what some may think, they work for you.
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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2 Responses to "Steve Forbes: Card Check “not dead”"
Steve Forbes is absolutely correct. While EFCA in its current form will probably not pass in the Senate, Democrats will try to develop a compromise bill. They will do so by taking the secret ballot measure out and leaving just the hefty increased penalty fines and binding arbitration. These two provisions alone are enough to kill many small businesses across America.
Learn more at http://www.TheTruthAboutEFCA.com.
Right on. Let’s let Warner & Webb know what we think of EFCA. They should not be in the business of using their federal legislative powers to overturn Virginia’s Right to Work laws.
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