Employee "card check" and New Jersey

by: Hopeful

Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 04:43:44 PM EDT

Too many times during the last year, at campaign fund raisers, people who had large interests in manufacturing would approach me to 'discuss' my position on the Employee Free Choice Act. Although my factory experience from the 1960's outweighed the pressure exerted in 2008 every time, the campaign system favors manufacturers with money to contribute to the candidate. Let us hope as EFCA is being discussed and voted on in Congress this week that our representatives vote for what is right and fair and in the best interest of our nation, and not for what is personally lucrative.

What Shulman encountered was condemned by Adam Smith himself, the hero of free market economics:

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.