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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (19702)6/20/2007 2:21:33 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
SENATE Key Vote Alert - Card Check
Key Vote Alert

KEY VOTE ALERT
"NO" on "Employee Free Choice Act" (S. 1041 / H.R. 800)

The Club for Growth urges Members of the U.S. Senate to vote "NO" on the absurdly named, Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041 / H.R. 800), a bill that would allow unions to bypass secret elections. This key vote will be part of our 2007 Congressional Scorecard.

This bill does nothing but allow union organizers to freely intimidate workers into signing on to their agenda. Secret elections protect workers from this abuse and ensure that their voting decisions are made freely. Secret elections have been a cornerstone of our democratic process since our nation's founding for reasons so obvious and broadly accepted that they have never been seriously questioned. It speaks volumes about the supporters of this bill that they would seek to deny workers the fundamental democratic right to vote in private.

As the Heritage Foundation notes, "Publicly signed union cards do not reveal employees' free and considered choices. They allow unscrupulous organizers to threaten workers who refuse to sign up. Even when organizers obey the law, card-check allows organizers to manipulate workers psychologically, giving them only one side of the story and pushing them to make an impulsive decision to join the union with little time for reflection. Organizers can then return and repeatedly pressure holdouts to change their minds. Card checks reveal little about whether or not workers actually want to join a union, and the government should not take away workers' right to vote in privacy with a secret ballot when deciding to unionize."

Our Congressional Scorecard for the 110th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market policies and will be distributed to our members and to the public.

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