Journal Editorial Page Admits That Employee Free Choice Doesn’t Nix “Secret Ballot”
It isn’t every day that folks on the left hail the pro-business Wall Street Journal editorial page for its honesty. But today labor officials are circulating a Journal editorial that could put a crimp in efforts by opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act to claim that the measure kills the “secret ballot” option to join unions.
The key bit: The editorial correctly notes that Employee Free Choice doesn’t do that at all:
The bill doesn’t remove the secret-ballot option from the National Labor Relations Act but in practice makes it a dead letter. The bill allows a union to automatically organize a worksite if more than 50% of workers simply sign an authorization card…
The question of whether the measure makes the secret ballot a “dead letter” is debatable, but this still counts as an outbreak of candor for the Journal edit page.
Also interesting: The Journal staunchly defends Blue Dog Dem Dan Boren against that hard-hitting SEIU video I posted the other day tying Boren to the horrific death of a laundry worker in an industrial dryer, describing it as a warning from labor that anyone who doesn’t support EFCA will get “roughed up.”
As always, opponents of labor have a tough time discussing the issues without playing on “labor goon” stereotypes.
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Sweet. “Even the Wall Street Journal admits . . .” can now be part of all responses to rebut the central premise of EFCA opponents.
yeah, I think that’s right. It’ll probably be regularly featured by the unions. though I’m told they want to stop having the argument about this and may stop engaging on this question…
Probably the right strategy. Time to go on offense and emphasize what EFCA does rather than what it doesn’t do.
Yay!
It’s a good day. I was not a Suze Orman fan, but by gawd, I am now. She told Bush on her show that he owes us every penny of his fortune for breaking the economy. I’m so damn glad someone said it.
You know it the WSJ editorial staff had to agonize a lot over how to put the truth about secret ballots in the article while making it still seem some how ominous. Its surprising that they put it in at all but then again they still tried their best to downplay it. I for one think the unions would be making the wrong move not to play this up. A perfect ad would be one with all the op eds in the WSJ decrying secret ballots and then that quote and at the end all of the benefits of unions and the facts about why big business is opposed to EFCA. The secret ballot canard has been used so many times by so many different people that you have to beat back that meme first just to get some people to pay attention at this point.
The WSJ has admitted nothing of the kind. The text of the bill is clear: if a majority of workers have signed cards, then certification occurs without an election. That language is the justification for their assessment that the bill makes certification elections a “dead letter.”
EFCA and cap-and-trade will be the final nails in the coffin for American manufacturing.
As I understand it EFCA means that the employees can keep the union vote SECRET FROM THE EMPLOYER and that’s what is freaking out the right wing.
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Am I misreading EFCA? Do employees who are gathering card checks required to tell the employer what they’re doing?
Can any of you read and comprehend? WSJ said that the secret ballot was, in effect, a dead letter. Look it up “dead letter” as it means that the secret ballot virtually goes away.
Also, the Boren SEIU video is silly. Research the death at Mission Laundry in Las Vegas last year. It is represented by UNITE-HERE. As tragic as a death is, they happen in union shops too.
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