Anti-worker front group rigs poll to contradict huge majority support for Employee Free Choice Act

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.examiner.com/x-2071-DC-Special-Interests-Examiner~y2009m1d25-Antiworker-front-group-rigs-poll-to-contradict-huge-majority-support-for-Employee-Free-Choice-Act?cid=exrss-DC-Special-Interests-Examiner


The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace has released the results from a push-poll to bolster the organization’s inaccurate claims about public opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act and certain key provisions. A push-poll is a survey that uses loaded language to skew the results and to spread misinformation under the guise of reputability. In fact, an overwhelming majority of Americans support the legislation, which would help level the playing field by making it easier for workers to bargain with their employers for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
The CDW is a front group for business associations, industry lobbying groups, and right-wing groups who are against workers organizing to improve their family’s lives.

In its poll released in January 2009, the CDW used biased and false language like claiming that unions are pushing for laws to “make it easier to force workers into a union.” Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic Monthly wrote about the poll, “The CDW definition includes loaded language implying that their co-workers and bosses could intimidate them into signing the card”

In fact, in a Hart Research Associates survey of 1,007 adults in December 2008, 73 percent favored the Employee Free Choice Act after hearing descriptions of its three main provisions.


* 75 percent favor the provision which “allows employees to have a union once a majority of employees in a workplace sign authorization cards indicating they want to form a union,” including 44 percent who strongly support the idea.
* 64 percent favor the provision which “strengthens penalties for companies that illegally intimidate or fire employees who try to form a union,” including 49% who strongly support penalties.
* 61% favor the provision which “establishes binding arbitration in cases where a company and a newly certified union cannot agree on a contract after three months of negotiating

FULL story at link.

[Joe the Liberal]

1. Typical Right wing idiots would oppose this.......

anyone in their right mind and with any sense at all would support the employee free choice act.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The name of the law is "FREE CHOICE"!! Duh.

That should make it pretty clear...