{"id":495,"date":"2009-04-08T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T12:34:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:13:59","slug":"laugh-test-naive-hollywood-actors-shill-for-big-labor-s-card-check-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/laugh-test-naive-hollywood-actors-shill-for-big-labor-s-card-check-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh Test: Naive Hollywood Actors Shill for Big Labor&#8217;s \u00abCard Check\u00bb Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nRecently, former <i>West Wing<\/i> actors Martin Sheen and Bradley Whitford lobbied in favor of the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (better known as the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill) at a press conference with so-called American Rights at Work, the same militant lobbying group which Labor Secretary Hilda Solis played a formal role <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/soliss-illicit-lobbying-02032009\">while a member of Congress<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCNS News asked the actors why they support a bill which would effectively eliminate the secret ballot in workplace unionization drives.\u00a0 Whitford responded (emphasis mine),\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t<b>The notion that the labor movement is out to abolish their own members\u2019 rights to a secret ballot just doesn\u2019t pass the laugh test.<\/b>  And people who are propagating the rumor that it does, their sudden compassion for worker\u2019s rights is just not believable.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThere are so many problems with that one, incredibly misinformed sentence.\u00a0 As <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/card-check-does-eliminate-secret-ballot-03182009\">I explained last week<\/a>, the card check bill makes the secret ballot a virtual dead letter.\u00a0 But Whitford&#8217;s comment shows he is willing to believe whatever union bosses tell him.\u00a0 Union bosses routinely work to undermine employee freedom &#8212; it&#8217;s nothing new, except to hardcore union partisans.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut Whitford also made another error.\u00a0 In a sense, he&#8217;s right that the labor movement is not &quot;out to abolish their own members&#8217; rights to a secret ballot&quot; &#8212; but only because the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with unions&#8217; &quot;own members.&quot;\u00a0 The bill would eliminate the secret ballot for prospective members as well as independent-minded workers who do not want the union&#8217;s &quot;representation.&quot;\u00a0 Union bosses want to destroy the secret ballot in unionization campaigns so that they can <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/card-check-intimidation-03262609\">intimidate<\/a> and <a href=\"\/neutrality\/carddeception.htm\">trick<\/a> employees into signing cards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFortunately, Sheen and Whitford just play politicians on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nRecently, former <i>West Wing<\/i> actors Martin Sheen and Bradley Whitford lobbied in favor of the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (better known as the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill) at a press conference with so-called American Rights at Work, the same militant lobbying group which Labor Secretary Hilda Solis played a formal role <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/soliss-illicit-lobbying-02032009\">while a member of Congress<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCNS News asked the actors why they support a bill which would effectively eliminate the secret ballot in workplace unionization drives.\u00a0 Whitford responded (emphasis mine),\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t<b>The notion that the labor movement is out to abolish their own members\u2019 rights to a secret ballot just doesn\u2019t pass the laugh test.<\/b>  And people who are propagating the rumor that it does, their sudden compassion for worker\u2019s rights is just not believable.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Laugh Test: Naive Hollywood Actors Shill for Big Labor&#039;s &quot;Card Check&quot; 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