Just because I run a site about Air America doesn't mean I actually listen to them. So, it's understandable that I've only seen Rachel Maddow - now of MSNBC - two times. The first time was for a lightweight supposed "take down" of Pat Buchanan which was just a use of smears and innuendo rather than any sort of attempt to counter his points.
The second (and hopefully last) was from yesterday's broadcast of her TV show in which she discusses the Employee Free Choice Act, aka card check. As a solo host she falls completely flat, and it's possible to hear pins dropping all throughout her studio as she hectors members of her choir.
On the show she stresses that under card check (recent activity here) the secret ballot would still be available, and directs us to this Myth v. Fact page (edlabor.house.gov/employee-free-choice-act-myth-vs-fact/index.shtml). What neither she nor her guest Andy Stern mention is the scenario outlined by a commenter (yes, the commenter might be a plant) at politics.theatlantic.com/2009/03/employee_free_choice_act_fight_is_on.php:
Let's say there are 150 employees in a company and the union wants to organize there. They would need 76 signed cards (50%+1 of the employees) to be recognized. If they can identify 76 employees most likely to sign the cards-for any reason, union support, peer pressure, intimidation, not sure what they are really signing, etc.-the union never needs to approach the remaining 74 employees. If 76 employees sign the cards the entire 150 are now unionized. The 74 employees not informed of the union campaign are required to join and pay dues. Where's their "Choice?"
This site isn't coming down on either the side of the US Chamber of Commerce nor on the side of the leadership of the Service Employees International Union and other unions. It'd be nice if they both went away, but lacking that perhaps the Dems could come back with something that's at least slightly less of a sham.
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