Comments on: The Post's 'Battle' Over Card Check http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/12/10/the-posts-battle-over-card-check/ The national media watch group Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:38:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting » Blog Archive » FAIR Radio on Tribune Bankruptcy and Union Card Check http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/12/10/the-posts-battle-over-card-check/comment-page-1/#comment-843 Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting » Blog Archive » FAIR Radio on Tribune Bankruptcy and Union Card Check Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:52:41 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=3801#comment-843 [...] left, or those who held out the hope that Obama would turn his back on the labor movement. What is card check, and why does it have corporate America--and much of the corporate media-up in arms? We'll find out [...] [...] left, or those who held out the hope that Obama would turn his back on the labor movement. What is card check, and why does it have corporate America--and much of the corporate media-up in arms? We'll find out [...]

]]> By: public takeover http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/12/10/the-posts-battle-over-card-check/comment-page-1/#comment-812 public takeover Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:06:22 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=3801#comment-812 You know, this is exactly the problem with commercial media in the US. It's completely slanted against the American people. By the way, the EFCA does not "do away with the right to a secret ballot election" as the forces of darkness and mass media manipulation continue to claim. On the contrary, the EFCA gives the choice to have an election to recognize a union for purposes of collective bargaining to the employees. Anybody who wants to insist on an election -- employees or employer -- can get one within a ninety day window after a majority of authorization cards have been signed, by simply filing a petition with the NLRB. You know, this is exactly the problem with commercial media in the US. It's completely slanted against the American people.

By the way, the EFCA does not "do away with the right to a secret ballot election" as the forces of darkness and mass media manipulation continue to claim.

On the contrary, the EFCA gives the choice to have an election to recognize a union for purposes of collective bargaining to the employees. Anybody who wants to insist on an election — employees or employer — can get one within a ninety day window after a majority of authorization cards have been signed, by simply filing a petition with the NLRB.

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