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The labor union-sponsored “card check” bill has been scheduled for a House committee hearing on Thursday. The National Retail Federation just put out this press release, calling for Congress to defeat this bill.

As FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe wrote for Townhall.com,

“Democratic leaders have promised to bring Senator Ted Kennedy’s Employee Free Choice Act to a vote. The cornerstone of this bill is the “Card Check” provision. Under current law, employees vote by secret ballot in a government monitored election to decide if they would like to join a union and is successful in organizing in a little over half of the cases. This process is however unacceptable to union bosses.

Card Check is a top down system which does away with secret ballots. Employers would be forced to recognize a union without an election is successful with just over 50 percent of workers participating. Card Check removes privacy protections for employees. It opens the workplace to intimidation and corruption, and to say the least, is a violation of the American principle of a secret ballot.

Given their shrinking membership, labor bosses have nothing to lose and everything to gain. UNITE HERE’s Bruce Raynor, a big labor front group, told the New York Times, “There’s no reason to subject the workers to an election.” And you thought Stalin’s ideas were dead?”

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