Cuccinelli Asks U.S. Senators to oppose Card Check

Attorney General candidate Ken Cuccinelli asked Steve Shannon to join him in signing letters to be sent to Sen. Jim Webb and Sen. Mark Warner asking them to oppose card check legislation, which would require employers to recognize a union when union organizers collect signed cards favoring unionization from a majority of employees, thus eliminating the requirement for a secret ballot election.

The bill, S. 560, the Employee Free Choice Act, would also ensure when unions and management are engaged in collective bargaining, if neither party comes to an agreement after 120 days of bargaining, a federal agency would come into do the arbitration. This dangerous legislation would enact penalties on employer misconduct, but not union misconduct.

Ken Cuccinelli made the following statement:

“Card check is a disastrous idea which should never be implemented,” Cuccinelli said. “Its passage would dramatically undermine the Commonwealth of Virginia’s right-to-work laws, which have been largely responsible for much of the economic growth in our state. Among its many bad provisions are one that would eliminate the secret ballot, which is a hallowed tradition of American elections, and replace it with a card check system that both parties – unions and business – could manipulate with threats and violence and one that would put the federal government in charge of many workplaces, allowing unelected, unaccountable, and federal bureaucrats who are inexperienced in the business world to make most major business decisions, perhaps including setting wages, hours, and use of health care plans.”

Cuccinelli continued, “I hope that my opponent Steve Shannon will join me in asking our elected representatives in the U.S. Senate to oppose this bad legislation.”

EFCA would be a huge threat to states with Right to Work laws such as Virginia, and in this economy, we can not afford to drive business out of the state.

Read Cuccinelli’s letter that he asked Shannon to sign.

Read the letter that is being sent to both of Virginia’s U.S. Senators.