WASHINGTON—The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today reacted to a statement by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis that the Obama administration continues to support card check legislation. AFP President Tim Phillips released the following statement:

"Secretary Solis’s insistence today that Congress still needs to pass card check legislation is an embarrassment. The administration has clearly not gotten the message the American people have been sending over the past year. Americans are fed up with Washington’s inside baseball, especially favors for the special interests that put them in office.

"Instead of moving to the center with policies to reduce unsustainable spending and debt and get the economy moving again, the Obama administration is renewing its failed effort to take away from workers the right to a secret ballot in union organizing elections. It's especially disgraceful on top of a recent attempt to shield unions from the so-called "Cadillac Tax" on health care plans that the administration wants to force the rest of us to pay.

"Card check is just another bad policy that a tone deaf administration is trying to foist on the country to appease its political allies. It’s long past time for the Obama administration to give up on its outrageous attempt to force Americans to join unions that don't represent their interests."