Rove on wrong side of employee free choice (Do you agree with Karl?)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/45438752.html

By Sheila Cochran

Posted: May. 19, 2009

The current economic crisis is squarely rooted in corporate power run amok. Over the past several decades, corporate executives have lined their pockets while their well-funded lobbyists rewrote and erased regulatory rules.

And what did they get for their efforts? We're now seeing both the highest levels of income inequality and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

On Tuesday, Milwaukee was visited by Karl Rove, former political adviser to President George W. Bush. He was in town to bash the Employee Free Choice Act before a private meeting of the corporate lobbying group Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce.

Should we really be taking economic advice from one of the architects behind our current deregulation-fueled catastrophe?

Even before Wall Street starting sinking, working people knew the game was rigged. After all, workers' productivity has soared over the past several decades - leading to record profits. But those gains weren't reflected in their stagnant paychecks. Instead, corporate power brokers were busy concocting schemes to inflate their salaries to 350 times the wages of an average worker.

Now we're in desperate need of a recovery, but average consumers don't have the buying power to stimulate the economy. That means layoffs and cutbacks. In Wisconsin, we are experiencing the highest unemployment rates in 27 years, and there is no relief on the horizon.

FULL story at link.

[Kingofalldems]

1. Rove anit-union? I am shocked I tell ya!

One of his fantasies from back when he was touting the permanent GOP majority was no more unions.

[Oregone]

2. But can someone explain to me whats up with card check deal?

I understand little of this entire deal (Ive never been in a union)...

But, doesn't this whole process require that prior to voting, the employer gets to see the names of each person that signed that cards to initiate unionization vote? I mean, couldn't that produce a nightmare? Knowing that signing a card could get my boss pissed off at me would maybe prevent me from signing it.

Am I misunderstanding this whole thing?