Dems Sue over Technicality
The proponents of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act are leaning heavily on a technicality within the Act in an attempt to hide what will be the actual result if passed. Every opponent of the falsely name bill, from political candidates to business groups, has not been shy in stating that the Act would in fact eliminate secret ballot elections. While the bill still “allows” for elections, in practice it would NEVER occur.
It has come to the point where the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has sued candidate Norm Coleman over statements to the effect that the EFCA would “eliminate the secret ballot.” In a statement, Minnesota DFL Chair Brian Melendez said, “the Act in fact guarantees a secret ballot.”
The Act only guarantees that a secret ballot can be called. But if a union can become the representative of the employees upon the signing of authorization cards by 50% +1 of the employees, how likely is a union to ever call for an election? It is the current practice of unions (about 95% of the time) to not call for an election until they have 50% anyway! The truth is, under the EFCA, we will most likely never see another election.
Perhaps Norm should counter-sue. If the court testimony ever reached the light of day, we may smoke the proponents of the Act out of their hiding place behind the technical language of the law.
To see the great lengths to which the EFCA proponents will go to make a lie sound like the truth, read the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party official monograph here.
