Under the card check proposal, if parties can't settle a dispute within 120 days, the dispute would go to an arbitration panel that could impose a contract that is binding for two years. Opponents of the bill say that provision would take away any incentive for either side to negotiate.
The Workforce Institute, an organization opposed to card check, calls the bill the "Employee Forced Choice Act."
"While President Obama continue's to claim out of one side of his mouth that the economy and job-creation are his top priorities, in the next breath he states support for legislation which will result in lost jobs and closed businesses," said Katie Parker, Executive Director of the WFI, in a statement Wednesday. "It is hard to take seriously Obama's claims concerning his committment to getting America's economy hiring again when he has decided to stand with the big labor bosses over job creators."
Obama went on to tell a story which isn't funny to consevatives. He said, "When you are in a car and you want to go forward, you put it in "D" the president said, refercencing "D" for Democrats and "R" for Republicans. "You want to go back in the ditch put it in "R"
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