Greetings, you're listening to podcast number 137 of Blast the Right.

I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.

You'll hear how to debunk an amazing lie the right is propagating about

upcoming critically important labor union legislation. Then I'll give you a

short primer on what I call the four pillars. The four ways the right in the

Western world economically exploits the third world. It's the key to

understanding so much of what you read in the foreign policy realm. Let's get

right into it. Sources you'll hear in this segment include the New York Times,

the websites of the AFL CIO and the United Steelworkers Union, the Washington

Times, the UK newspaper The Guardian, American writes at work.org, YouTube for

the audio and private correspondence with Columbia Law School Professor Mark

Barrenberg. There's a piece of legislation that the Democrats with strong

progressive support have been trying to get through Congress for years. It's

called the Employee Free Choice Act. This will be a major issue in 2009. I'm

going to give you a brief heads up about it now. When the actual vote nears I'll

get into it with you in more depth. If you listen to the right wing hyperventilating

about it, this bill would eliminate secret ballots and elections where workers

decide whether they want a union or not. And it would substitute something new

and horrible called card check. A union could be certified of more than half of the

workers simply sign a card saying they want that union to represent them. In a

prior go round on this, here's Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada.

You know, it's just pure intimidation. This issue of eliminating secret ballots

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