An anti-union group ioronically named the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace has released the results from a push-poll to bolster the organization’s inaccurate claims about public opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act .
A push-poll is a survey that uses loaded language to skew the results and to spread misinformation under the guise of reputability. In fact, an overwhelming majority of Americans support the Employee Free Choice Act, which would help level the playing field by making it easier for workers to bargain with their employers for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
The CDW is a front group for business associations, industry lobbying groups, and right-wing groups who have lobbied for free trade, the right to spy on employees, and for lowering minimum wage laws..
In its poll, the CDW used biased and false language like claiming that unions are pushing for laws to “make it easier to force workers into a union.” Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic Monthly wrote about the poll, “The CDW definition includes loaded language implying that their co-workers and bosses could intimidate them into signing the card”
In fact, in a Hart Research Associates survey of 1,007 adults in December 2008, 73 percent favored the Employee Free Choice Act after hearing a neutral deswcription of the legislation.
The so-called Center for A Democratic Workplace represents the interests of those seeking to put profits over people. The Employee Free Choice Act fixes the current broken system that gives the employer the ability to frustrate their workers’ choice to organize to improve their family’s and their community’s lives.