Its so rare for traditional media to analyze anything, so Kudos and Diggs to Raj Cohan of CBS Denver for challenging this anti-employee rights scare ad:
Ad: What if labor bosses controlled class elections. Thanks for your vote. I want to assure you that a vote for me is best for you. Ms. Hudgens has just agreed that there isn't gonna be any secret vote. Sign these cards showing us who you like the best, and my campaign committee will collect and count em.
Here's the spin. The ad attacks legislation in Congress called the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). If approved, it would amend the National Labor Relations Act to make it easier for unions to organize. How would it work? If a simple majority of workers sign cards saying they want a union, EFCA would essentially require the National Labor Relations Board to certify the union, assuming there was no illegal coercion involved in gathering the signatures. Under these circumstances employers would be barred from demanding a secret vote.
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The ad is tongue-in-cheek, but the point it makes is no joke. It comes from an out-of-state 501C4 group called the Center for Union Facts. The group refused to release its donor list although a like-minded sister organization in Colorado called Coloradans for Employee Freedom lists local conservatives Sean Tonner, Jon Caldara, Mark Hillman, Cory Gardner, and Frank McNulty among the local group's board members.
http://cbs4denver.com/...
Give a Digg to CBS!