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Anti-Worker Group Pays Rove $100,000 to Fight Employee Free Choice
Here we go again. Yet another misleadingly named, corporate-funded front group has been created to block the freedom to form unions and bargain and scare people away from the Employee Free Choice Act. And where there are big corporate dollars and smear campaigns, you can bet that repudiated and disgraced political hacks like Karl Rove can’t be far behind.
This time, reports Think Progress, the “Economic Freedom Alliance” (EFA) is paying the checks to Rove. The EFA, a new corporate front organization “partnering with a number of Midwestern statewide employer organizations,” has paid Rove, George W. Bush’s sometime top political operative, $100,000 this year for his services as a high-priced consultant to their disinformation campaign.
The EFA, with Rove’s assistance, is using websites, billboards and other tactics to try and pressure U.S. senators to vote against the Employee Free Choice Act. It’s another desperate attempt, fueled by a big bankroll, to block real change for working people. (Sounds familiar, huh?) The corporations who fund the EFA and line Rove’s pockets know the Employee Free Choice Act would give workers—not their bosses—the choice about how to form a union and bargain for their fair share.
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If there was ever a time for the Employee Free Choice Act, that time is now. Not only is it nearly impossible to form a union without fear and intimidation by employers, but union-busting has grown into a $4 billion a year business in the U.S. alone. Companies that previously had good relationships with their union employees have been emboldened by weak labor laws. One of those is the McGraw-Hill Companies. Read more at:
http://nabetcwa54.org
Cost of deceptive media campaign to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act – $200 Million Dollars::
Limiting the employees ability to fight corporate greed…PRICELESS!
IAM Local 126
It would be helpful if the AFL-CIO would endorse a particular bill number in the water-downed version of the EFCA, since the majority sign-up provison has been stripped from the original version.
Please sign this petition supporting the employee free choice act.
http://bit.ly/EFCA
We would be a lot further along in the struggle for union rights if labor had pushed for repeal of Taft-Hartley – maybe then we’d get card-check as a compromise; or if labor had endorsed and campaigned for the only legitimate pro-labor candidate in 2000, 2004 and 2008 – Ralph Nader – we would have repealed Taft-Hartley and raised the pitiful minimum wage to an actual living wage.
This is not true; NY Times reported that a few of our so-called friends in the senate want to strip card check from the bill but that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to do it. we can still fight them and push for the original bill.
And hopefully the AFL will back Joe Sestak in PA to challenge to phony “democrat” Spectre.
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moondog on 06.08.2009 at 12:10 (Reply)
It would be helpful if the AFL-CIO would endorse a particular bill number in the water-downed version of the EFCA, since the majority sign-up provison has been stripped from the original version.<<
I don’t understand how the Republican propaganda machine is able to lie, and threaten with impunity. This has been going ow for years and there seems to be no end to their dirty tricks as they on certain “new” media and have all the money in the world to throw at the opposition. How do we fight the nightmare they’ve caused and their continued obsession with taking down President Obama and the country! It is frightening.
If the trade union leaders would get off their butts and start acting like leaders (fat chance) and direct organizing strikes that would soon lead to legislation from the so-called “friends of labor” Democrats in Congress. With the labor mis-leadership beggng crumbs from the table from Democrats in a period of economic collapse and political reaction (the two go together) the working class can only expect a worsining organizational climate. Without struggle there is no progress and until that is acknowledged we go nowhere but backwards.
Workers need to be kept informed by their leaders about the Employee Free Choice Act so they will not turn against what we are trying to do to save unions so that workers will be better off than they would be if Big Business was in charge because all they care about is Corporate Profits. Yes We Can Pass EFCA!!
Sounds like they have taken lessons from Axelrod, Obama and ACORN…as these are the exact same tactics used to get Obama elected.
Acorn has been to court, and all the charges dropped for lack of credible evidence. Seriously, if you are interested in actual voter fraud, please Google Edward “Kennedy” Jr or “Greg Palast ,” along with voter fraud (no quotation marks;) what you may read might stun your imagination.
It would be very helpful if there was a complete and updated list of Corporate efforts being used against the Employee Free Choice Act. If there are CEO’s and other Management elements using their money and resources in an effort to take this basic right and fair process away, I would like to know about it, and so would many others. Who are they? What are their Names?
I don’t have a lot of money to spend in this current economy, but if I knew that there were some Businesses, Stores or specific Management Groups actively working against this act, I would make sure I spend my dollars somewhere else!
Right now, even these few dollars become a very important tool in this fight! If all working people and working families took this type of action, there would be an solid impact, and that is very important during this fight.
We don’t need to feed the hand that is working to drive us into submission.
Please help us understand who and where the enemy is in this fight for fairness, and then let’s make sure that our hard earned and bargained for wages don’t support these businesses and operations!
If we don’t use the new information about Karl Rove being a part of this campaign we are missing the boat! What am I getting at? Karl Rove was investigated for wrongdoing in the Bush administration and the outng of a CIA operative… an act of treason in and of itself! Is this the type of person to be trusted in any campaign? Heck he was Bush’s right hand man and stepped down… Why? Because he was GUILTY and wanted to save face and avoid more trouble and public scrutiny. Come on folks at the AFL jump on this and use it to put a black mark on the Repubs campaign against the EFCA…