Today’s Charleston Post and Courier has an excellent editorial against the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act suggesting that Democrats in Congress should heed Former South Dakota Senator and Presidential Candidate George McGovern’s recent appeal to drop their support of anti-worker bill. They wrote:
Mr. McGovern hailed America’s unions — as he has throughout more than half a century as a political figure — for helping to assure fair treatment of workers, build a strong middle class and to assure fair treatment of workers. However, as he accurately warned, the EFCA would treat workers quite unfairly.
That’s a powerful argument from a man who could never be mistaken for a tool of management. Congress should heed Mr. McGovern’s appeal and reject the “undemocratic overreach” of the grossly mislabeled Employee Free Choice Act.