They do already spend millions fighting unions, intimidating workers, fighting elections, and then union selections make it to the republican-domianted NLRB, they have all the resources and lawyers to show that unions led fraudulent campaigns. Despite organizing problems and claims by some on the left that unions don't appeal properly to working people or are corrupt etc., the current process of ratifying unions is the main problem that union membership is about 12%.
Who could argue against the importance of card check in turning that around. It means that elections will be shorter, companies won't be able to intimidate workers, they couldn't wage smear campaigns against the unions, but most importantly that if a majority of workers sign a memberhsip card, then the union gets ratified.
No card check isn't socialism, but I don't see how having Bush in office will win card check for working people. So fighting to make sure that doesn't happen doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Joel Wendland
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