"Card Check" Union Elections and the Myth of Union "Harassment"

Congress is presently debating a bill that would allow a different type of union recognition election than currently prescribed in federal law. We are not sure whether this will be relevant at MU, but Washington Monthly and TPM Cafe have recently carried some helpful discussions of the issue. What is particularly good about these comments is the way they dispel a lot of myths about the way unions operate that people have picked up from old movies or The Sopranos. There is also some reference in these posts to the fact that most of what we hear and read about the economic harm of unions are also dead wrong.