At least, that's what more liberal clergy apparently think.
They are backing so-called "card check," which would allow union
organizers to mislead and intimidate their way to victory.
Reports Cybercast News Service:
Union leaders, clergy and liberal members of Congress
gathered in the mostly empty U.S. Capitol Visitors Center
early Tuesday morning to hear multicultural choir music,
speeches from religious leaders--and to pray for the passage of
the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
The event was a prayer breakfast sponsored by Faith
Leaders for Workplace Fairness--a coalition of liberal
religious groups that was formed for the sole purpose of
promoting EFCA, commonly known as the "card-check" bill.
Under this bill, union organizers could compel an employer to
recognize a union as representing the employer's workers any
time more than 50 percent of workers in a
workplace publicly signed cards saying they wanted the
union. When that happened, there would be no secret
ballot among the workers on whether to unionize, and
the workers who had not signed the public cards would have
no say in the matter.
As I've
written for the Spectator, the fairest way to decide on a
union organizing drive is to hold a vote. Why why hold a
Soviet-style ballot where the commissar gets to look at your vote
when the Soviet Union is gone?
About the Author
Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).
