In case you missed it, this week unions made the comical move (led by Representative George Miller who put this idiotic claim up on his House Committee website) of taking a phrase out of a Wall Street Journal article out of context and then claiming (in exact opposition to the sentence they quoted out of context) that the Wall Street Journal said that EFCA didn’t effectively eliminate the secret ballot election. Read the Wall Street Journal’s response – it’s pretty good.
Miller and the usual suspects (American Rights At Work, the SEIU, AFL-CIO, etc.) went after this sentence: “The bill doesn’t remove the secret-ballot option from the National Labor Relations Act but in practice makes it a dead letter” and then left out the “but in practice makes it a dead letter” half of the sentence (kind of an important part of the sentence). I know that union leaders think they’re a lot smarter than the rest of us (especially their own members), but give me a break.
Yet if Miller and the unions can’t read a simple declarative sentence like the one from the WSJ editorial I guess it’s no surprise that they can’t read the text of the actual Resolution, which clearly states that EFCA eliminates the secret ballot election in any case where a union shows it has majority support – which today, and certainly after EFCA, is virtually (if not exactly) 100% of the cases.
