{"id":597,"date":"2009-03-04T12:55:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T12:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2009-03-04T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T12:55:29","slug":"employee_free_choice_act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Employee Free Choice Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employee Free Choice Act sounds really good, doesn&#8217;t it?&nbsp; Well, it&#8217;s all about the spin&#8211;even when you name a bill.&nbsp; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/04\/obama-tells-unions-that-card-check-will-pass-this-year\/\">HotAir.com<\/a>, President Obama told top union officials at their winter meeting in Miami that he would pass the Employee Free Choice Act.<\/p>\n<p>The Employee Free Choice Act (contrary to its name) takes the secret ballot away in union elections.&nbsp; If a company is about to be unionized, the employees are handed a card and asked to vote openly in the presence of a union official&#8211;there is no secret ballot.&nbsp; It opens the door for all sorts of abuses of the voting process.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2008\/10\/george_mcgovern_goes_after_uni.asp\">Weekly Standard Blog<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article in October of last year, when this bill was being discussed, which included a video of George McGovern (also posted on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=afjp4Cx-3W0\">You Tube<\/a>) explaining why the Employee Free Choice Act (also known as &#8216;card check&#8217;) is a bad idea.&nbsp; This is legislation that will truly kill the economy.&nbsp; It will be the end&nbsp;of the non-union shop and of the automobile industry outside of Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee Free Choice Act sounds really good, doesn&#8217;t it?&nbsp; Well, it&#8217;s all about the spin&#8211;even when you name a bill.&nbsp; According to HotAir.com, President Obama told top union officials at their winter meeting in Miami that he would pass the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}