Opinion: Union Card Check Would Make Matters Worse

Washington DC December 30, 2008; The AIADA newsletter reported that former Pennsylvania congressman Pat Toomey writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer today that the misleadingly named the Employee Free Choice Act would take away workers' basic rights to a secret-ballot vote on union representation.

It would allow unions to organize through a poorly regulated "card-check" process instead. Many politicians have been falsely characterizing the card-check law as an essential part of an economic-recovery program.

In reality, it would deepen the recession. By stripping workers of their rights, the act would undermine businesses and workers, causing further declines in American employment and productivity in an economy that desperately needs both.

The Big Three car companies are a case in point. Unfortunately, if card check becomes law, some of the factors behind the collapse of Detroit's automakers may help ruin the employers in your town, too.

Even though most Americans - and even a majority of union members - think fair workplace elections conducted by secret ballot are preferable to card check, Congress doesn't seem to be listening. And given the economic crisis, this is precisely the wrong time to be sacrificing the interests of American businesses and workers.

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