Union TV Ads Campaign ‘A Major Falsehood,’ Top Economist Claims

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Union TV Ads Campaign ‘A Major Falsehood,’ Top Economist Claims

CNSNews.com) – A national cable television ad campaign to garner support for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), also known as the card-check bill, is drawing fire from a top labor-market economist who challenges the ads’ claims.
 
The ads were launched last week as part of Big Labor’s renewed effort to push the bill, which would make it easier for unions to organize workplaces without a secret ballot vote.

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One of the ads -- “Fabric of America” -- says: “It’s an idea that makes America strong. It’s a fair day’s pay for a hard day’s work. It’s health insurance when you’re sick or injured. It’s job security to provide for your family. It’s the fabric of a sound economy. It built the middle class. And it’s what the Employee Free Choice Act is all about: Letting workers choose to join a union to earn better pay and benefits. The Employee Free Choice Act. It's time our economy worked for everyone again.”
 
But Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former chief economist for the U.S. Labor Department and chief of staff at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, says the ads’ claim that EFCA would lead to more economic security is “absolutely a falsehood.”

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She said expanding union membership under car check would benefit unions, but would work to the detriment of the newly unionized workers – who would be paying in money to pension funds to cover current expenditures, not stashing away money for their own pensions.

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What???   A union ad that's misleading???