[lbo-talk] card check: he dead

[gboozell at juno.com]

>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

Illinois has had a form of card check for public employees since 2003. Here's an excerpt from U of I Prof. Robert Bruno's recent study of card check & union coercion:

"the most dramatic outcome of the provision’s administration is the total absence of any employee or union abuse. In over 1,000 cases there is only one allegation of union coercion or fraud to compel or induce workers to sign authorizations. The ILRB found the complaint to be meritless." 

full article and link to the report at 
http://www.progressillinois.com/2009/5/4/efca-zero-coersion-study

Greg