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Annoying: Rachel Maddow misleads about Employee Free Choice Act - 03/10/09

... 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...

John Sweeney can't answer union secret ballot question (card check, citizen journalism) - 02/05/09

... a stumper of a question about card check legislation (the Employee Free Choice Act), which they apparently couldn't answer. The question is paraphrased like so: Organized labor claims that secret-ballot elections lead to intimidation by employers, but if 90% of workers signed cards when confronted by union organizers in dark parking lots or in vacant break rooms and then only a very slim...
 
 
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