> Card Check Is Dead
> By Liza Featherstone
>
> Last Thursday, President Obama pronounced "card check" dead, saying
> that the current Employee Free Choice Act didn't have the votes to
> pass but that a "compromise" could work. By compromise, the
> president meant a version of the bill without card check, the
> provision obliging employers to recognize unions after a majority of
> workers have signed cards, rather than after an election. On the
> same day, Sen. Arlen Specter, newly "D"-Pa., a key swing vote, said
> that he, too, would support a "compromise" on EFCA: card-check-free,
> of course.
So what is the [fake] rationale offered in opposing card-check? Cards/ signatures can be forged? Workers can be coerced outside the premises (into choosing something that will better their lot)? That the lone, brave, John Galt (or should that be Roark?) will lose his right to exist independent of other humans?
--ravi