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Michael A. Fletcher of the Washington Post repeats Rick Berman’s lies about Employee Free Choice:
Opponents have attacked the proposal’s intent to eliminate secret ballots in union elections, an idea they say is undemocratic.
Dean Baker does the honors:
Workers do not currently have the right to a secret ballot in elections deciding whether or not they will have a union. The employer has the option to recognize a union based on card check (a majority of workers sign a card indicating their desire to join a union) or to demand an election certified by the National Labor Relations Board. The Employee Free Choice Act that will be considered by Congress in the next session gives this choice to workers.
Under the legislation, workers could organize by card check, but they can also petition to have an election overseen by the NLRB. Therefore it is incorrect for the Post to assert that the bill’s "intent [is] to eliminate secret ballots in union elections.
Deborah Howell is currently in her final days as ombudswoman at the Washington Post. Let’s send her out with a bang.
You can politely insist that the Washington Post print a correction here.
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she did say politely, but she did say insist.
I’m at a point that I just assume the MSM are going to spin and lie for their corporate masters.
You are welcome to send her out with a bang, gang, but promise me you won’t send her back to MN!!!
Oh blow me Deb.
I insist.
Politely.
Prolly be the worst hummer ya ever got.
there are bad ones?
sorry.
hope i’m not the only person who just had to turn my computer upside down.
This party’s getting dirty. We should pull up out panties & go home.
Is there something dirty I missed? I was just trying to read.
Digg it courtesy of PhilPerspective. Thanks, Phil.
I think it would be OK if we would move the dirty comments to Debbie’s comment section…
When they bite… Really…! ;-)
My mistake.
Unfortunately Debbie only takes her talking points from the Repubs.
Why are ombudspeople almost universally mediocre, or worse?
Denorah Howell at the Post, Daniel Okrent at the NYT, Jeffrey Dvorkin at NPR are (or were)
all useful idiots for the Right.
Fuck the corporate media and the shill editors, “journalists” and publishers who are in bed with the status quo. The sooner the better the NYTimes, WaPo, LATimes, Chicago Tribune et al go belly up.
Guys , we need to pull up our tighty whiteys
Jane, is this polite but insistent enough?
(to Deborah Howell)
“Please tell your newspaper to stop repeating Republican Talking Points and telling lies in opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act.
Thank you.”
Yeah, shelve it.
email sent.
dugg your digg neuro and dugg your comment!
Sent
Gentlemen the sexual comments demean the FDL and the some of our ladies that are solid commenters. The tasteless picture on the post does not give licence.
Absolutely…banter is good…snark too…
I wasn’t offended, but thought enuf’s enuf.
Deb insisted in print lately that she voted for Obama and implied that she has a pro dem bias. Who would have guessed?
Jane, thanks for the nudge re: Howell. But jeez, let us not overlook the fact that the MSM has found no shortage of time and attention for the likes of Corker, Shelby, Romney, Gingrich, Cramer, Bush, et. al., who have really made a concerted effort to be simultaneously obfuscatory as they demand the destruction of organized labor (without coming right out and calling for it)- without so much as a by-your-leave or thoughtful follow-up question by the ‘news anchors’/stenographers.
email sent
I’m way politer than you folks.
I tried it this way:
Dear Ms. Howell,
Your reporter Michael Fletcher printed errors in discussing the Employee Free Choice Act in suggesting that the aim of the act is to eliminate secret ballots in votes on unionization. At this point the decision whether or not to allow card check is in the power of the employer, the Act will transfer the power to the workers. Unless it is the Washington Post’s policy to legitimate falsehoods I would request that you have the paper issue a correction. Of course, if it is the policy of the paper to legitimate false statements then you need not take any action.
Sincerely,
nicely done…
and welcome, johnlilburne