Chico, California Paper Editorializes For End To Employee Free Choice Act

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 by Admin

Yesterday, California’s Chico Enterprise newspaper added its concern over the Employee Free Choice, arguing:

Labor, after its impressive fundraising for the Democratic Party, must feel emboldened. But if unions truly believe in their cause, they wouldn’t need to eliminate fair elections. And our economy certainly doesn’t need mandatory government intrusion into private labor disputes.

For those reasons, we hope the Employee Free Choice Act vanishes for good.

Interestingly, the paper took special note of EFCA’s binding arbitration provision:

Not only is this practice unreasonable and potentially rife for intimidation, there are no regulations or safeguards to determine what authorization cards can look like or say not the language nor the size of the small print on the card. The card only needs to contain a single ambiguous line somewhere on it that authorizes a union to represent the worker.

But by far the most economically destructive provision in the Employee Free Choice Act is one that imposes binding arbitration if the parties fail to reach agreement within 90 days.

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