I've written several times about the "Employee Free Choice Act."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive.../08/021166.php
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive.../03/016666.php

Far from promoting employee free choice, this legislation would enable
a union to be certified as the bargaining representative of employees
merely by presenting to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
cards executed by a majority of employees in the bargaining unit. The
presentation of cards would mean no election. Thus, instead of making
the decision about whether to be represented by a union in private and
in secret, employees could be subjected to all manner of coercion to
sign a card.

Barack Obama supports this legislation. As ever, though, he and his
campaign are dishonest about what his position entails. As I noted
here,

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive.../08/021166.php

the campaign claims that if workers "wish to vote by secret ballot
instead of a card-check process, they can; the law does not strip them
of that right." In truth, however, if the union, under unsupervised
conditions, can browbeat more than half of the employees into signing
cards, there is no election. Employees, in other words, are stripped
of the right to vote.

This reality is sufficiently obvious that CNN's "fact-checkers" have
affirmed it.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...ot-for-unions/

CNN examined a statement by John McCain that "Senator Obama
is. . .planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to … take away
your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections." In one of the
no-brainers of this election, CNN concluded that McCain's claim is
"true."

Obama's low regard for free elections can be attributed, in this
context, to his desire to placate organized labor. Increasingly,
though, there is reason to wonder

http://townhall.com/columnists/Micha...ama_thugocracy

whether it is also connected to a more general disregard
http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapun...es2/024910.php

for democratic freedoms and a willingness
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive.../09/021638.php

to rely on (or at least tolerate) organized thuggery to promote his
purposes.

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