http://www.americablog.com/2009/03/ny-times-gets-it-right-on-employee-free.htmlA couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about how the corporate media continually misconstrued the intent and purpose of the Employee Free Choice Act. Just last week, Media Matters nailed USA Today and Politico for incorrectly describing the Employee Free Choice Act.
So, I have to give credit where credit is due. Today, Steven Greenhouse at the NY Times, actually got it right:
Labor is pinning its biggest hopes on the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that unions hope will add millions of new members by giving workers the right to union recognition as soon as a majority of employees at a workplace sign pro-union cards. The bill would take away management’s ability to insist on a secret ballot election.
That's the key issue with how people talk about the Employee Free Choice Act. Corporate groups falsely assert that the bill does away with secret ballot elections, which is absolutely not true. The only thing that the Employee Free Choice Act eliminates is "management's ability to insist on a secret ballot election." And, we wonder why corporate lobbyists don’t want people to know that. Just last week, we were told that, "The workplace is much better today" by an executive from the Chamber of Commerce. Sure, if you don't count the layoffs, downsizing, loss of health care benefits....and on and on.
The Republicans and their corporate masters are apoplectic about the Employee Free Choice Act -- and they'll lie to defeat it. That crowd has already done enough damage to America’s workers already. We’re all going to fight their lies every step of the way.
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