CNN's Lou Dobbs Peddles Lies and Anti-Union Propaganda

CNN host spreads misinformation about the Employee Free Choice Act.

Under EFCA, workers would still have the right to vote in a National Labor Review Board (NLRB) "secret ballot" election if 30 percent of the workforce signs cards, just as they do now. EFCA would change the process of union formation by giving workers seeking to join a union an additional option of winning union representation after a majority of the workforce signs cards, through a new provision to the act (section 9 c 6). Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 10, 2009

The article finds Dobbs factually challenged again, and being a blowhard against labor.

Decades of republican attacks against the ability of unions to organize, and outsourcing jobs has seriously weakened the middle class in America, and fed the economic crisis. Approving EFCA would enable moves to right the situation.

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Brian Bucknam
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by Brian Bucknam - Feb. 10, 2009

The "lie" in question is being propagated by anti-union forces, but this entire article is based on one oddly-formed sentence from Lou Dobbs.

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