A Republican strategist and former campaign advisor to Governor Mitt Romney says a bill supported by Barack Obama would have a chilling effect on the ability of workers to say "no" to union representation.
The bill is called the Employee Free Choice Act, or EFCA, but critics of the bill say it is misnamed because it actually takes away the American worker's basic right to a secret ballot in union elections. Barbara Comstock is with the Workplace Fairness Institute, which is trying to stop the EFCA from becoming a law. "A lot of times, people who sign cards end up voting against the union at the end of the day, when they do it in secret ballot, because they weigh the pros and cons and decide, perhaps, they'd like their workplace to stay the way it is and not to take the chance of being, say, a striking worker," she contends. Comstock also believes unionization costs jobs. "From an economics standpoint, if you look at Michigan, which is a heavy [sic] unionized state, they have 8.9 percent unemployment," she adds. "European countries that have a lot of these top-down, big-heavy union models have [had] double-digit unemployment for years." The fact that big labor has spent more than $400 million in campaign efforts, according to Comstock, should be a warning sign that they are expecting a big payoff at American workers' expense. She says even former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern has come out against this bill.
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