Coalition for a Democratic Workplace Releases New YouTube Video

Video says Employee Free Choice Act will cost jobs

WASHINGTON, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a new video released today,
the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) says the mis-named Employee
Free Choice Act would be poison for our economy.

"The economic consequences for our country are disastrous if Big Labor gets
their way and the anti-worker card check legislation is passed by Congress,"
said Brian Worth, chairman of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace. "This
video sends a clear message that EFCA in any form will cost jobs."

Created by nationally-known media strategist Mike Murphy, the short video,
entitled "Poison", depicts a sick patient in a hospital room as a metaphor for
the ailing economy. The patient's IV is replaced with dark green liquid as a
symbol of EFCA's "poisonous" impact on the economy.

"Recent backroom deals to save EFCA under the guise of 'compromise' do not
change the fact that this bill will hurt workers and small businesses
regardless of any changes currently being discussed," said Worth. "At the
end of the day, it's still EFCA and it's still bad for the economy."

The card check variations that are presently being vetted include allowing
mail-in card check, rushing the election process and granting union organizers
greater access to the workplace. Mail-in cards are not a serious alternative
to the card check scheme; they are simply card check with a stamp, or
"postcard" check. Quickie elections raise similar challenges for small
business owners and, like mail-in cards, are merely a Trojan Horse for card
check.

Perhaps the most frightening of all is a provision that forces small business
to accept contract terms dictated by federal government bureaucrats. This
unprecedented action would mean that a government-appointed arbitrator, who
may have no history with the industry or market, would have the power to set
wages, hours, work rules and benefits of small business employees for a period
of two years. Already struggling under challenging economic conditions, under
the union contracts generated by the EFCA arbitration provision, small
business owners will not be able to maintain the flexibility they need to
create the jobs that grow the economy, and will have no ability to contest a
contract that is unworkable.

The video can be viewed on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Rr4mLEyQc and at www.MyPrivateBallot.com. A
copy of the script is also attached.

About the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace is made up of more than 580
associations and organizations from every state across the nation that have
joined together to protect a worker's right to a private ballot when deciding
whether to join a union. In 2008, CDW embarked on a multi-million dollar
public education campaign in key states that included polling, television,
radio and internet ads and direct mail. For more information and a listing of
our membership, please visit www.MyPrivateBallot.com.

VIDEO: AUDIO:

We look through a doorway and
See a hospital bed. Lighting is
bleak and depressing. There is a
U.S. flag on The wall in background.
Somebody is in the bed but we cannot
see who.

Anncr; (VO): America's economy, is
in crisis.

Camera pushes in, pans heart beat
monitor. The beep is slow, but
steady.

Unemployment, is soaring.
But some special interests want...

We follow an IV line up the
patient's arm to a bag of clear
medicine.

to put a huge new burden on the
economy.

A make hand, in a suit, replaces
the bottle with a new one,
full of dark green liquid which is
labeled "card check".

It's called card check, a radical
plan to take away the secret ballot
when workers decide whether to join
a union.

We hear and see the heart monitor
speed up, to a dangerous speed.
Camera pans the label on the bottle,
we read the fine print as we hear
heart beeps speed up:

-- Large and small business hurt
-- costs would rise
-- many jobs lost.

Large and small business would be
hurt. Costs would rise, many more
jobs would be lost.

Cut to heart monitor, very fast now
then, monitor goes flat line with
long beep.
Card check. It's poison for our
economy.

Camera dollies back from medium to
Wider shot as flat line tone
continues.

Super over scene as it fades to
black.
Call your Senator (Name) Now.
Tell them to vote NO, on Card
Check.

Super disclaimer

SOURCE Coalition for a Democratic Workplace

Rhonda Bentz of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, +1-202-580-7289