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…
Venerable columnist George Will has weighed in on the dangers of the Card Check Bill, calling it “radical” and “Orwellian.” Will demands that “any member of Congress who was elected by a secret ballot should oppose the so-called “Employee Free…
The San Francisco Examiner has weighed in with a policy editorial opposing Rep. George Miller’s (D-CA) Card Check Bill calling it “Orwellian.” “Under the [so-called] Employee Free Choice Act,” according to Miller’s cleverly worded press release . . . “[w]hat…
Big Labor’s effort to sneak the Card Check scheme through the Congress has hit a snag. More and more Americans are becoming aware of their efforts. Here are the latest defenses of workplace democracy from newspapers and blogs throughout the…