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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Do corporate front groups think the Employee Free Choice Act is similar to Nazis?

BY MICHAEL WHITNEY
SEIU Blog
12:00 PM Eastern - July 23, 2009


With the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act still going, it was bound to break Godwin's Law: yesterday the Arkansas Democrat Gazette editorial board "unequivocally" equated the Employee Free Choice Act to.... Nazis. The newspapers' anti-Employee Free Choice editorial ends with this:

Have you noticed? Political parties supposedly dedicated to the workers' welfare have a way of undermining their rights. They may begin by bullying management but wind up dictating to labor, too. And everybody else. For a European example to beware, note the sad history of the grandly named National Socialist German Workers Party, aka Nazis.

The "Workforce Fairness Institute" and "Center for Union Facts" both linked to the editorial approvingly and without distancing themselves from the Nazi association.

Think Progress reports:

Corporate front group tweets approvingly about editorial equating Employee Free Choice Act with Nazism.

Today, the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI) -- which is a corporate front group, "founded by several longtime Republican operatives," that is lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) -- tweeted approvingly about an editorial in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette that unequivocally equates EFCA with Nazism.


The editorial says that "American public opinion came to the defense of the secret ballot when it was about to be junked. It needs to stay vigilant against these sly little provisions intended to achieve the same end." The blog continues here.