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Trumka is delusional. There is no way that Congress is going to pass a job killer like card check given the number of jobs that the economy has already shed under Obama.

EFCA would be tantamount to legalized union thuggery, which would be just fine with Obama, but most people realize that allowing union bosses to "recruit" new members through intimidation would cripple the economy.

I hope you are right, but with the democrats ties to the unions, I have to wonder if they don't find someway to pull it off.

Craig Becker is President Obama’s nominee to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Becker will be the third person on the five person Board and the second Democrat thus giving them majority on the Board.

The NLRB has two primary functions: one, to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices, whether committed by labor organizations or employers, and; two, to establish whether or not certain groups of employees desire labor organization representation for collective-bargaining purposes, and if so, which union.

Mr. Becker wrote that employers should be barred from NLRB proceedings:
[INDENT]“On these latter issues employers should have no right to be heard in either a representation case or an unfair labor practice case, even though Board rulings might indirectly affect their duty to bargain.”

In Becker’s opinion, business owners, many of whom are small business owners that collectively employee 50 million Americans, have “no legally cognizable interest” in one of the most significant decisions impacting the potential future success of their company. But Becker takes his views one step further and would even deny employers the ability to alert authorities to illegal union activity during an election campaign saying:
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“Similarly, employers should have no right to raise questions concerning voter eligibility or campaign conduct. Because employers have no right to vote, they cast no ballots the significance of which can be diluted by the inclusion of ineligible employees. … Because employers lack the formal status either of candidates vying to represent employees or voters, they should not be entitled to charge that unions disobeyed the rules governing voter eligibility or campaign conduct. On the questions of unit determination, voter eligibility, and campaign conduct, only the employee constituency and their potential union representatives should be heard.”
[/INDENT][/INDENT]http://biggovernment.com/brjohnson/2010/...more-69390