Lefties on Solis on Card Check
December 19th, 2008 by Nick SaintUnion fans all seem very impressed not just by Obama’s pick for labor secretary in general, but by the above speech she gave in support of card check. Now, I suppose these guys really love to watch people say that unions are swell in the public forum, which is fine, but they are not doing themselves any favors by pretending this is an impressive piece of card check advocacy. Solis argues:
1.) Unions are terrific
2.) …
There’s nothing very helpful about that. I’ve been looking for an argument that really supports card check for a while now, but I still haven’t seen one. I don’t mean that I haven’t seen a good argument; I haven’t seen a serious attempt at an argument at all. Basically, a real argument in favor of this legislation would have to establish either that card check is easier to enact than legitimate secret ballots, or that pressuring reluctant workers into forming unions against their instincts is a good idea. I suspect that most card check supporters have something like the latter in mind, but don’t want to say so, so they vaguely hand wave at the former. But I really don’t know. If anyone does know, please tell me.
