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Marc Ambinder has some more information on the card check poll I posted earlier, as well as an AFL-CIO poll that shows similarly lopsided margins in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act's key provisions. The results depend heavily on how the questions are worded, with the AFL-CIO leaving out the fact the workers have less privacy in card check events than in secret ballot elections and the anti-card check pollster exaggerating the privacy angle in a highly loaded question. I think Ambinder understates the degree to which card check would stack the deck against secret ballot elections, but his conclusion is correct: card check makes it easier for unions to win than secret ballot elections. The point of the legislation is to increase unionization.

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http://spectator.org/blog/2009/01/26/more-on-that-card-check-poll

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