Sen. Ted Kennedy is throwing his weight behind the Card Check scheme and will hold a hearing on the legislation in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on March 27th. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is gathering…
“The right to a secret ballot is the cornerstone of our democracy. For centuries, Americans — regardless of their race, creed or gender — have fought for the right to vote. And for the right to keep that vote private.
Columnist Doug Bandow weighs in against the Card Check scam: “The real reason organized labor wants card check is that elections don’t guarantee the results that unions want — but that’s the nature of elections. You can’t always get what…
AFL-CIO Boss John Sweeney has made a prediction. Sweeney told Reuters News Agency that he expected the U.S. Senate to join the House of Representatives in passing the Card Check scam. “We think that in the end we…
Another newspaper editorial board weighs in against the Card Check scam. This time it’s the Orange County Register from Southern California. The Register notes: A Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, delivering on a union priority, voted last week…
Arizona Republic’s Robert Robb believes that House passage of the Card Check Forced Unionism scheme, HR 800, could hurt freshman Reps. Mitchell (D-AZ) and Giffords (D-AZ) re-election chances. He called the bill “an empty, tone-deaf political gesture to the unions.”…
Kimberly Strassel, the Potomac Watch columnist at the Wall Street Journal, believes that the card check “victory” for House Democrats marked the “ultimate payoff” that will “end . . . the honeymoon” for congressional Democrats. “Democrats won in November…
A review of the roll-call vote of the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill, H.R. 800, shows an almost partisan vote; however, 13 Republicans voted in favor of the scheme: Mike Ferguson (NJ-07) Vito Fosella (NY-13) Pete King (NY-03)…
Presidential candidate Barack Obama is itching to become president so he can sign the card check forced-unionism scheme into law. Speaking at a rally in Chicago, the presidential candidate vowed: “We will pass the Employee Free Choice Act [as if…