The most recent issue of Business Week spotlights the Employee Free Choice Act, allowing the co-founder and former CEO of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, and House Education and Labor Chairman Rep. George Miller (D-CA) to present their opposing views. 

Amid his many criticisms of EFCA, Marcus states:

I'm not opposed to unions, but I am opposed to this act because it will make
American companies uncompetitive in the global marketplace and ultimately send
jobs offshore. I'm also opposed to the dishonesty of some EFCA supporters who
claim that worker coercion by employers in union elections is "the norm." No
data published by the National Labor Relations Board support this wild
accusation. In fact, NLRB data prove the opposite. It is troubling that some in
the media and perhaps in Congress continue to rely upon discredited studies.
Their readers and constituents deserve better.

And then Rep. Miller does exactly just that, re-hashing the same misrepresentations and peddling the same sophistry from an earlier assortment of statements, floor speeches and committee hearings.  Unfortunately, the one passage about ballots and intimidation Rep. Miller chose not to repeat was the position he took back in 2001, when he wrote the Mexican government:

"We understand that the secret ballot is allowed for, but not required, by
Mexican labor law. However, we feel that the secret ballot is
absolutely necessary in order to insure that workers are not intimidated into
voting for a union they might not otherwise choose."

It would seem that the benefits of engaging in an intellectually honest policy debate about labor law reform is, at this point, entirely lost on EFCA's proponents.  After seeing the bill defeated repeatedly in successive sessions of Congress, one might have hoped for at least some effort to modify the bill to address its numerous shortcomings.  Alas, it seems that the strategy remains:  obtain electoral success in 2008 and railroad this mess through as is.