Boehner: "Card Check" Will Take Away Workers' Right To a Secret Ballot

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) discusses how the Democrats' "Card Check" bill will take away American workers' right to a secret ballot.
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[sbmcguire03]

We are witnessing the very DEATH of democracy right before our eyes.

[Elizruth]

Representative Boehner--- Aside from making sure that food and products don't kill we citizens, the government has NO RIGHT to legislate business. Our own country is making me sick with spending our money and legislating our lives. I think the FED and this administration is bound and determined to destroy out country. I'm 100% against the card check!

[IWLocal8]

The current system does not have any secret balloting. I wonder why the big corporations keep trying to turn everyone against the EFCA by trying to insinuate that the EFCA will take AWAY any secret ballot? It actually ADDS an ability to vote in secret that does not currently exist.

PEOPLE EDUCATE YOURSELVES.

[IWLocal8]

Send your Senator a letter! Arlen Specter just decided he's in favor of the EFCA!

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Can any of you union busters come up with anything other then the not true secret ballot argument?

[FluxCapacitor2008]

EFCA would simply add a fourth choice for workers seeking to form a union. The legislation would require the NLRB to certify a union representative if a majority -- more than half -- of workers sign authorization cards in favor of the union.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

MYTH: EFCA will prevent the use of secret-ballot elections.

REALITY:  EFCA does not strip workers of their right to choose a secret-ballot election to decide whether to select -- or not to select -- a union representative. EFCA simply gives workers the additional option of selecting a union representative by majority sign-up.

Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), there are three ways for workers to form a union:

[FluxCapacitor2008]

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub.L. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338, enacted November 12, 1999, is an Act of the 106th United States Congress which repealed part of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933,

[FluxCapacitor2008]

The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited a bank from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Unions more often vote for Democrats because they favorer the middle class and prefer trickle up economics that put money in the consumers wallets. Republicans know there is strength in numbers and thats the only reason they are trying to bust unions. A hard lesson they learned in the last elections. And all the union haters you run across are most likely bitter Republican voters that know they lost because of union voters or greedy business owners.