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The Huffington Post: EFCA Ad War Heats Up: SEIU Responds To Chamber's Latest
04/13/09 - On Monday, meanwhile, the Chamber announced its latest salvo: a pricey ad campaign that focuses on a EFCA provision that would empower federal arbitrators with the task of negotiation a deal between union forces and management if the two parties fail in their own negotiation.
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The Plum Line: SEIU Hits Chamber Over Bailout Cash
04/13/09 - SEIU is blasting the Chamber, a determined EFCA foe, for seemingly saying on its blog that it?s still taking membership dues money from companies that have received government bailout cash.
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The Hill's Blog Briefing Room: Gingrich blasts EFCA in radio spot backed by business group
04/09/09 - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) blasted the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, or "card check") in a nationally-distributed radio spot produced by an anti-EFCA organization.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Our corporate champions of freedom
03/15/09 - The assault against the free choice act rivals the tobacco campaign for sheer chutzpah by insisting that union busting (a) does not erode the middle class and (b) is inexorably linked to business's deep regard for the sacred "freedom" of American workers.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: It's about democracy and rights, not secret elections
03/12/09 - Like the master illusionist creating an act of prestidigitation, corporate America is undermining democracy, while at the same time pretending to be its biggest defender in the workplace.
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Talking Points Memo: Republicans Tout Anti-Employee Free Choice Study -- Paid For By Big Business
03/05/09 - Sounds scary -- but what's scarier still is who paid for the study: the Alliance to Save Main Street Jobs, a front for the business lobby's heaviest lobbying hitters.
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The Hill: Nonprofits' spending was dominated by card-check
03/03/09 - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce ? a leading opponent of the card-check bill ? led the way by spending $36 million, according to the study. Another prominent opponent, the Employee Freedom Action Committee, spent $20 million on last year?s election.
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Wall Street Journal: Unions Ask IRS to Investigate Card Check Opponents
02/26/09 - The country?s largest unions are asking the Internal Revenue Service to look into one of the country?s largest antiunion advocacy groups, the Center for Union Facts.
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DC Examiner: Anti-worker front group rigs poll to contradict huge majority support for Employee Free Choice Act
01/25/09 - 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.
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The New York Times: Bill Easing Unionizing Is Under Heavy Attack
01/08/09 - Intent on blocking organized labor?s top legislative goal, corporations are quietly contributing to lobbying groups with appealing names like the Workforce Fairness Institute and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace.
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Arkansas Times: What they're about
01/08/09 - Anti-union ads, like a recent one aimed at Sen. Blanche Lincoln, blather about the ?secret ballot,? hardly the sponsors' chief concern. They're more desirous of low wages than secret ballots.
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The North Platte Bulletin: Nelson: Union vote ads are confusing, dumb, sleazy
12/19/08 - "The ads cook up a stew of innuendo,? Nelson said Friday in a prepared statement about special interest advertisements on the ?Employee Free Choice Act? -- a bill that could make it easier to form workers? unions.
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DC Examiner: Anti-union corporate front group claims guilt by association in Illinois Governor scandal
12/17/08 - The Center for Union Facts is a front group supported by corporate sponsors who refuse to be identified.
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Maine Campus: Corporate funded push polls mislead public on Employee Free Choice Act
12/11/08 - This survey is clearly an attempt by big business - which more than likely paid for the survey - to mislead the public.
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Chicago Business: McDonald's girding for union fight
12/06/08 - [McDonald's] is also is a member of the National Restaurant Assn., which, in turn, belongs to the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace.
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Wall Street Journal: It's Time to Give Voters the Liberalism They Want
11/18/08 - So it may not surprise you to learn that democracy isn't really the main concern of card-check's opponents. It's unions themselves.
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National Journal: Stealth Group Fights Card Check
10/27/08 - Packer would not identify the WFI's funders. But sources familiar with its creation speculate that such big retailers as Wal-Mart and Home Depot -- a which are high-profile opponents of EFCA -- are likely among the group's donors.
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Chao, big labor disagree on bailout package
The Journal News - 9/24/08
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The Nashua Telegraph: Ads deceive workers on free-choice act
9/15/08 - Recent TV and radio spots paid for by Washington, D.C.-based lobbyists are lying to, and about, the working men and women of New Hampshire.
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NPR: Profile: Employee Freedom Action Committee
9/8/08 - The Employee Freedom Action Committee is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization run by former lobbyist Richard Berman, who also runs several other industry-funded nonprofits.
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The Oregonian: The lobbyist behind the anti-union campaign
9/8/08 - Berman's specialty is to act as a front man for business interests who would like to aggressively go after their opponents, but don't want their fingerprints attached.
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