A pro-business group has taken out a full-page advertisement comparing Bruce Raynor, head of UNITE-HERE, to dictators Kim Jong Il and Fidel Castro because of his support for card checks in union drives. Card checks were used to sign up roughly 70 percent of the private-sector workers who joined unions last year, according to AFL-CIO officials. That compares with less than 5 percent two decades ago.
See "Employers Sharply Criticize Shift in Unionizing Method to Cards From Elections", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, March 12, 2006