MYTH: The Employee Free Choice Act played a role in Tuesday's elections.

Corporate lobbyist-backed groups like the Workforce Fairness Institute and other conservatives made the fact-free claim that Tuesday's elections were a referendum on the Employee Free Choice Act. Wrote WFI in an email to supporters:

National issues played heavily in The Old Dominion and no issue played more of a role in the debate than the Employee 'Forced' Choice Act or EFCA.

The Truth? Exit polls showed 71% of voters named health care or the economy as their number one issue Tuesday. And despite the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others' millions in spending to make Employee Free Choice an issue in last November's elections, they failed to have an impact there as well: a majority of voters stated that they supported the legislation, and that it was not a significant factor in their vote.

FACT: Workers who want to form a union routinely face harassment from their employers.

Lowe's employee breakroom signs against Employee Free Choice

After Lowe's Home Improvement settled last month (for nearly $30 million) a class action suit for requiring workers to work "off the clock," workers were greeted with the sign to the right in their workplace breakroom--a not-so-subtle reminder of the company's position on giving workers a voice on the job.

Employer intimidation continues to be a problem, and it's nothing new: according to a study by Cornell labor expert Kate Bronfenbrenner, 34 percent of the time workers try to form a union, their employers fire union supporters. Sixty three percent of the time companies interrogate workers, 54 percent of the time they threaten union supporters, and 47 percent of the time they threaten to cut workers' wages and benefits.