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EFCA Round-Up -- October 29, 2008

In Forbes, commentary by Shikha Dalmia goes farther in criticizing Senator McCain's campaign for ignoring EFCA:



Perhaps Republicans deserve to lose this election--but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try to win. It is not clear, however, that the McCain campaign agrees. How else to explain its failure to alert voters of frightening liberal ideas such as "card check" that are bound to be enacted if Democrats sweep into the White House and Congress?



Human Resource Executive Online warns there's "A Tsunami of Union Organizing on the Way":



It makes no difference that an employee signs a card out of ignorance or that what is being told to him/her is a fantasy. There is no one to say otherwise. The employer, by giving up its rights to free speech about unions and a secret-ballot election, gives up not only its right to correct the claims upon which the cards may been signed, but also gives up the right employees have to know the employer's arguments and claims, to change their minds and to express their desires in secret, free of coercion.



MarketWatch passes on a press release from the National Federation of Independent Business in Raleigh, NC:



"Just because North Carolina is a right-to-work state does not protect us from the card check bill," said Gregg Thompson, state director of NFIB/North Carolina. "The card check bill will take away workers' right to a secret ballot in union elections."



The Newport News (VA) Daily Press carries an opinion piece by the President of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce:



This is a time when both Democrats and Republicans should state unequivocally that they will not deny workers a right to vote, just to sustain unions and their dues-fed treasuries. In the days left before the election, citizens in Hampton Roads and throughout the commonwealth should press candidates for the Senate and House of Representatives to state their positions on the EFCA and remind them that the ballot box is a sacred feature of American democracy, whether it's at a polling precinct on Election Day or at work sites across the commonwealth of Virginia every other day of the year.


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