When President Obama saw that he couldn’t get the Cap & Tax bill through Congress for him to sign, he directed his minions in the EPA to make up some guidelines on CO2 emmissions which magically because “New Regulations”.
Card Check also failed to get out of Congress, so guess what
Under the card check scheme included as part of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the (NLRB) would be required to certify a union without a secret ballot election once labor representatives obtained signatures from 51 percent of a company’s workforce. In practice, this means workers would no longer have the opportunity to debate the merits of a particular union and to cast their votes in private. Moreover, union bosses would be in control of the cards and would know who signed for and against representation.
Thanks to a well-coordinated and aggressive communications campaign organized through free market organizations, the public became privy to the anti-democratic features of card check before it could advance through Congress. Polls have consistently shown that over 50 percent of Americans surveyed oppose efforts to replace the use of secret ballots in unionization elections. Moreover, several Democratic Senators, most notably Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, have signaled that they will not support the bill.
Unfortunately, the public’s elected representatives may not have the final say where labor policy is concerned. Craig Becker, a recess appointee to the NLRB with strong ties to organized labor, has made it clear that he favors taking administrative action without congressional approval.
Brett McMahon, a representative with Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) who is also vice president of Miller & Long, a Maryland-based concrete construction company, suspects that Team Obama is now “going for broke†on behalf of their union benefactors. Electronic voting devices could be used to compromise anonymity and open the way for coercive techniques.
“You have to be very careful with election records because it means there’s a time and date and it’s possible that you could match who a person is with their vote,†he warned. “We also don’t know how e-voting is going to be monitored. The NLRB could just spring these electronic devices for use in elections without any safeguards.â€
In a letter addressed to NLRB members, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation argued that the board could not field enough agents to properly monitor electronic voting. Moreover, union organizers would be free to pressure workers into voting on Blackberries, laptops and notebooks in full view without privacy, the letter suggested.
And just like the new CO2 regs, this will be sold to the public as “for your own good”.