Pelosi and Unions

Speaker Hankey

''But unions poured an estimated $104 million directly into the November elections; far more, acknowledges union consultant Jon Tasini, is spent on indirect expenditures that need not be disclosed. Organized labor expects a return on its investment. No proposal is more important than the misnamed "Employee Free Choice Act," which would substitute card check for elections, allowing unions to win legal recognition based on a preliminary, and very public, show of hands. (The legislation also includes other remarkably bad provisions, including compulsory arbitration if an employer and union don't reach an agreement.) Says Stewart Acuff of the AFL- CIO, "We want to remind Congress that this is the AFL-CIO's No. 1 priority." - "The Secret Ballot Destruction Act"