Labor secretary assails unionization bill

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Maine Today

Labor secretary assails unionization bill

By MATT WICKENHEISER, Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2007

AUGUSTA - Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao visited the annual Construction Expo of Maine yesterday and spoke out against a bill that would change the way workplaces unionize.

The Employee Free Choice Act, or "Card Check Bill," has passed the U.S. House of Representatives, and a companion bill was introduced last week in the Senate by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.

Under the bill, a workplace could unionize if organizers were able to gather signatures from 50 percent of the employees, plus one. Currently, if 30 percent of workers express interest in unionization, the National Labor Relations Board supervises a secret election.

Chao said the Bush administration opposes the bill because it would remove a worker's right to vote in a secret election, a process in place to protect workers from "coercion or harassment in unionization elections."

Read more: http://business.mainetoday.com/news/070413seclabor.html

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1. the anti-labor secretary

[Joanne98]

2. God I hate that woman!

[LiberalFighter]

3. What do you expect from someone married to McConnell?