Union groups hope to use their influence with the Administration and Congress to control the debate over card check.Anyone have a problem with groups that helped Barack Obama win the Presidency asking the IRS to investigate card check opponents? Both the AFL-CIO and Change to Win (headed by Anna Burger, the secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union) have asked the IRS to investigate one of the country's largest antiunion advocacy groups, the Center for Union Facts The unions allege that the leader of the group violated its nonprofit status by raising money with the stated goal of defeating Democratic senatorial candidates in the 2008 election.The AFL-CIO and Change to Win have asked the IRS to investigate a conference call hosted by Bank of America about the Employee Free Choice Act, which would ease the way for workers to unionize by allowing them to bypass federally run secret-ballot elections. On the call, Rick Berman, executive director for...(Read Full Post)