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National Journal: Hotline on Call: Answering McKinnon
06/23/09 - Big Business will say and do anything to prevent workers from getting the fair pay and benefits they deserve. That's why they're pouring millions of dollars into front groups like the Workforce Fairness Institute and operatives like Mark McKinnon to mislead the public on the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Knoxville News Sentinel: 50 protest Knoxville Chamber over stance on unions
06/09/09 - About 50 people picketed the Knoxville Chamber on Monday to protest the chamber's opposition to pending federal legislation that would change the way unions could form.
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The Journal Star: Employee Free Choice Act
05/16/09 - Labor leaders say relationships they worked to build with management for more than 20 years in central Illinois were jeopardized Monday with Karl Rove's appearance to speak against the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Associated Press: Hundreds protest Rove's central Ill. visit
05/12/09 - Hundreds of people in central Illinois have protested outside a closed-door fundraiser that featured Republican strategist Karl Rove.
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Peoria Journal Star: Divisive visit stirs pot
05/11/09 - Labor leaders say relationships they worked to build with management for more than 20 years in central Illinois were jeopardized Monday with Karl Rove's appearance to speak against the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Minot Daily News: Who's against the EFCA?
05/03/09 - Who's against the Employee Free Choice Act? Big businesses, of course. They continue to get bailouts while the rest of us get sold out.
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The Plumb Line: Chamber's Big Anti-EFCA Ad Blitz One-Fourth Advertised Size
04/14/09 - But the business group, one of EFCA?s leading foes, has placed ad buys totaling less than one-forth that formidable-sounding sum, according to a Democrat who got the info from a media ad buyer.
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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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