Mitt Romney writes a column for the Washington Times' "Reinventing Conservatism" series (which seems reasonable since Mitt is often accused of reinventing himself whenever the political winds change). The former Massachusetts governor and savior of the Salt Lake Olympic Games attacks the so-called card-check bill in Congress that would allow workers to organize if a majority signed union authorization cards as opposed to casting a secret ballot.

He offers an example of the card check system unionizing a charter school in Massachusetts, which he says undercuts the school's primary advantage, "that when administrators want to try something new, they can implement it quickly."

Conservatives like me are opposed to card check, but not to unions. At their best, labor unions have always fought for the rights of workers, and generations of Americans have been better off for it. But the card-check proposal is not an example of unions at their best - it is a case of union organizers rewriting the rules at the expense of working people.