With the fight over the card check bill heating up, the U.S. Chamber is taking on big labor during the two-week congressional recess by launching a $1 million ad campaign to oppose card check in five pivotal states.

The Chamber's television advertising campaign focuses on the binding arbitration provision in the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). That provision would give the federal government the authority to dictate wages, benefits, and work rules in an initial union contract and deprive workers of the chance to vote on that contract. The ads will run in Colorado, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Virginia–key states where unions have targeted swing-vote senators.  "As long as unions are out there pushing hard for card check, we want to get it off the table," Randy Johnson, vice president for labor at the Chamber recently told Congress Daily.

The campaign comes just as labor unions are launching their own multi-million advertising campaign attacking businesses. Labor unions are ramping up their blitz over the congressional recess in an effort to gain the 60 senators needed to overcome a possible filibuster against the bill. EFCA has lost support in recent weeks with Sens. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) publically stating they could not endorse the bill in its current form.

However, the fight to stop card check is far from over. Watch the ads here. Then tell your representatives to VOTE NO ON EFCA by going to http://secretballot.voteforbusiness.net/join.php.