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The agency argues that the state cannot override a federal law that gives workers the option of the so-called card-check method of organizing, in which workers sign cards indicating their interest in forming a union.
Federal Regulators Sue Arizona Over Union Law Melanie Trottman 2011
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The bill would allow majority signup elections, also known as card-check.
The Seattle Times 2011
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For a man who compares seeking to organize a union through a person-to-person card-check drive to the efforts of Southern segregationists to violently suppress the black vote, a complaint that Boxer citing a resolution by the NAACP on climate change in a climate change hearing is somehow "racial" and something that would "explode" is certainly audacious.
Wonk Room » Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Calls Barbara Boxer A Racist 2009
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Washington Examiner: Obama is to blame for placing at the top of his agenda job-killing bills that reward his political constituencies -- card-check, Obamacare, and carbon limitation bills, for example -- with a reckless disregard for their potential economic destruction.
Danny Groner: Obama, Jobs, and Labor Day: An Editorial Roundup Danny Groner 2011
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In March 2009, one House Republican asked Democratic leader Steny Hoyer, in floor debate, when the Democrats planned to bring the card-check bill to the floor.
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Smithfield agrees to hold a third union election, but the UFCW argues that the company should recognize card-check organizing instead.
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Washington Examiner: Obama is to blame for placing at the top of his agenda job-killing bills that reward his political constituencies -- card-check, Obamacare, and carbon limitation bills, for example -- with a reckless disregard for their potential economic destruction.
Danny Groner: Obama, Jobs, and Labor Day: An Editorial Roundup Danny Groner 2011
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Washington Examiner: Obama is to blame for placing at the top of his agenda job-killing bills that reward his political constituencies -- card-check, Obamacare, and carbon limitation bills, for example -- with a reckless disregard for their potential economic destruction.
Danny Groner: Obama, Jobs, and Labor Day: An Editorial Roundup Danny Groner 2011
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Washington Examiner: Obama is to blame for placing at the top of his agenda job-killing bills that reward his political constituencies -- card-check, Obamacare, and carbon limitation bills, for example -- with a reckless disregard for their potential economic destruction.
Danny Groner: Obama, Jobs, and Labor Day: An Editorial Roundup Danny Groner 2011
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He leaned on the Big Three to lean on their suppliers to accept the union on a card-check basis—without a secret ballot vote.
Winds of Change in Unionland Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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