
To most Americans, the term "card check" means nothing.
But to union bosses, this term potentially means billions of extra dollars collected in forced union dues, above and beyond the $7 billion in forced dues and "fees" that unions already report collecting each year on forms filed with the U.S. Labor Department.
Card checks empower union bosses to force a business's employees to accept a union as their exclusive bargaining agent solely through the acquisition of signed union authorization cards from employees in a particular bargaining unit. Since union officials themselves keep the signed cards until they obtain the required number, workers have no real privacy rights vis-à-vis Big Labor in this process. And under the watchful eyes of union organizers, workers may be intimidated into signing not just themselves, but all their nonunion fellow employees, over to union-boss control.
Archives: [110th Congress] [109th Congress]
June 9, 2009 - Any 'Expansion of Union-Boss Power Over Workers Is Unacceptable'
February 22, 2009 - This year, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chief Andy Stern and his lieutenants are openly planning to spend $50 million … to pressure Congress to rubber-stamp the cynically mislabeled “Employee Free Choice Act.”
February 4, 2010 - President Renominates Radical Union Lawyer, Senators Feel Heat
January 12, 2010 - Big Labor Reminds Majority Leader Reid He Must Deliver on S.560
December 15, 2009 - A 'Nasty, Ugly, Three-Year, Million-Dollar War I Did Not Ask For'
September 8, 2009 - Harry Reid Reportedly Scheming to Sneak S.560 Through Senate Soon
August 7, 2009 - Forced-Unionism Expansion Would Hurt Employees and Businesses
August 6, 2009 - 'Near Equivalent' of S.560 May Land on Senate Floor in September
July 3, 2009 - Sponsor Readies Summer Roll-Call on S.560 or Its Near Equivalent
June 8, 2009 - Big Labor in Pursuit of 60 Votes For New Monopoly-Bargaining Bill
May 6, 2009 - Like S.560/H.R.1409, 'Trojan Horse' Would Expand Big Labor Empire
April 6, 2009 - Committee Members Step on Surprise Announcement by Large Companies
April 3, 2009 - Committee Mobilizes Opponents of Big Labor Power Grab Nationwide
March 9, 2009 - Union Front Groups Lead Campaign to Cover up Facts About Measure
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February 9, 2009 - Right to Work Leader Warns Against Phony Card-Check 'Compromises'
February 6, 2009 - Opponents of Compulsory-Unionism Scheme Mobilizing as Obama Era Begins
January 6, 2009 - Mandatory 'Card Checks' Would Stymie Job Creation, Lower Incomes