A Minnesota judge Aug. 18 dismissed a second complaint against the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) regarding a television advertisement opposing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). The advertisement called attention to Al Franken’s support of the bill which would eliminate an employee’s right to vote by private ballot when deciding whether to join a union.
The EFCA would replace private ballot elections with a “card check” process in which employees would indicate their choice of whether to join a union by signing a card in front of their co-workers, employers and union organizers. CDW is a coalition of workers, employers, associations and organizations who are fighting to protect the employee’s right to a federally-supervised private ballot election.
The first complaint against CDW made by the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was dismissed July 29 by an administrative law judge who ruled that the complaint failed to cite any valid reasons why the statements made in the advertisement were false. DFL filed another complaint in August claiming that the television advertisement presented false information by stating the EFCA would eliminate private ballot elections when forming a union. After examining the evidence, the judge dismissed the second complaint as well and noted that respected sources from across the nation and political spectrum have described the bill in the same terms as the advertisement.
To view the ad, visit
www.MyPrivateBallot.com.
For more information on the Employee Free Choice Act, click
here.
For more information, contact Brewster Bevis at ABC,
bevis@abc.org.