CDW on Postcard-Check: "You Can't Fix Card Check By Simply Adding Postage"
Both Sens. Arlen Specter (D-PA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have reportedly been considering a "mail-in" or "postcard" alternative to EFCA's card-check recognition scheme. In the Oregonian, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace Chairman Brian Worth responds to an earlier piece in the paper regarding this alternative:
'Postcard check' scheme
There is no comparison between Oregon early voting and congressional efforts to find alternatives to the wildly unpopular card check scheme ("Mail voting proposed in union 'card check' fight," June 4).
The most important distinction is that there's no ballot involved in the mail-in
card proposal. It merely substitutes the discredited card check ruse with a "postcard check" -- a new and equally flawed variation. The postcard check proposal increases the power of the professional union organizer, eviscerates secret ballot elections and further weakens workers' privacy rights.Like regular card check, mail-in cards do not provide the guaranteed security and privacy of a voting booth, thus inviting fraud, intimidation and coercion
with more visits to workers' homes by union organizers.This latest attempt to fix what is wrong with the Employee Free Choice Act opens the door to abuse through ACORN-style campaigning that is prone to fraud and increases the possibility of worker intimidation and coercion. As National Labor Relations Board career staff noted, mail-in cards increase the "potential for interference by any party."
You can't fix card check by simply adding postage and this alternative further expands the attack on worker privacy from the workplace to the home.
BRIAN WORTH
Chairman
Coalition for a Democratic Workplace
Washington, DC
Hat Tip: ShopFloor.org
