thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check

This morning’s Detroit News carries an important editorial warning against the Employee Free Choice Act — both because it will harm workplace democracy and, ultimately, cost jobs:

But there’s no balance in the card check legislation. It would tip the organizing advantage steeply in favor of labor and deeply involve the federal government in contract negotiations.

Workers would be subject to public pressure from their peers to sign cards, and would have no additional chance to consider their decision. Vote totals in recent organizing elections show a big fall-off in the number of workers who sign cards asking for a vote and the number who actually cast ballots in favor of the union.

Workers deserve the opportunity for a more careful consideration of their decision, and the right to make that choice without broadcasting it to their peers. The bill contains no language governing what the card should look like or how they should read, opening the possibility that some workers will be misled into signing.

The paper adds:

It’s no secret that private companies don’t like to be unionized, for reasons both good and bad, but primarily because it drives up the cost of doing business. Labor costs are a chief consideration when companies decide where to create jobs. This bill will increase the incentive to take jobs, particularly manufacturing jobs, to less costly places.

No wonder Centrist Dems dodge labor bill.

Tags: Editorials, EFCAnomics, Jobs, Protecting Secret Ballots