Here is an amusing entry from the folks at TheTruthAboutTheEFCA.com.

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” It’s a scheme that worked for the devil, for the speaker of this quote in The Usual Suspects, and the increasingly-toxic card check provision of the Employee Free Choice Act.

First it was the canard that EFCA didn’t eliminate secret ballots. It is just a plain fact: once union organizers collect more than 50 percent of union cards — even if employees were uninformed, under-informed, misinformed, or “nudged” as they signed — the National Labor Relations Board cannot direct an election. It’s a myth that has been busted again and again, but like all great lies it continues on among the darkest corners of the Internet (and a few of our own lesser-hinged commenters).

But now it seems that rumors of card check’s death have been greatly exaggerated for a specific purpose (or several). Our friends at Shopfloor.org have been tracking the mysteriously timed pronouncement of card check’s death, even while Beltway insiders say it’s not so. So herein the latest analysis from Shopfloor:

The flogging of the “Senate Dems drop card check” story to the New York Times certainly brought renewed attention to the Employee Free Choice Act’s political prospects, which was probably the goal of the labor lobbyist(s) who were pushing the news. At least people are talking about the bill now instead of just assuming the whole thing is dead. Smart.

Plus they have a roundup of more analysis.

All this makes sense: have a bad product that people don’t like? Just tell them the big lie. Tell them it doesn’t exist. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Card check is not dead and EFCA still contains binding arbitration — a method that would allow government bureaucrats to effectively run employment decisions for small business. No, EFCA is not dead, and neither is the fight against it.

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