Marc Ambinder writes:

Is the administration going to slow-walk the Employee Free Choice Act, or card check? President-Elect Obama told the Washington Post yesterday that "while he favored the legislation, said there may be other ways to achieve the same goal without angering businesses. And while many Democrats on Capitol Hill are eager to see a quick vote on that bill, he indicated no desire to rush into the contentious issue."

Is that even possible?

Card check is kind of an all or nothing proposition.

I'm not sure where he's getting this from. The point of card check is that union elections have become a joke. Employers hold captive propaganda meetings, and routinely violate labor law by intimidating workers and firing organizers with no serious enforcement. That's why unions want card check, an expedited way to let workers form a union without facing massive pressure from their bosses. But if there was some other way to let employees decide whether or not to form a union without massive employer pressure, unions would probably settle for that, too. Indeed, some kind of compromise to stop employer intimidation is what I expect to happen in the end. It's far from all or nothing.

Is a Card Check Compromise possible?

Having conducted over a thousand elections over the last 30 years I can clearly state that workers only achieve their Section 7 rights to unionize if they can withstand the torture and physiological warfare bestowed upon them during the critical period 42 days leading up to a secret ballot election.

In an effort to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and to level the playing field and at the same time to takeaway the oppositions most misleading argument that the Employee Free Choice Act would strip American workers of their right to a private-ballot vote, we should have congress amend H.R. 800 EFCA to include a provision whereby the signer (the employee) can either request a secret ballot election or request that the union membership card he just signed be used as a showing of interest to bypass an election under a card check provision supporting majority status under the Employee Free Choice Act.

By amending this provision the true intentions of the employee who signed the union membership card would now be clearly stated, giving true meaning to the Employee Free Choice Act, while taking away the oppositions argument that the Employee Free Choice Act would strip American workers of their right to a private secret -ballot vote.

Is a Card Check Compromise possible? The answer is YES!

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