WSJ: Don’t Forget Employee Free Choice Act’s Binding Arbitration Threat
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 by AdminThe Wall Street Journal this morning has a good reminder for those who aren’t drowning in arcane labor policy that the Employee Free Choice Act has a second disgusting provision, one which would force big-government bureaucrats into the role of setting labor contracts through “binding arbitration.”
The Journal notes:
The binding arbitration rule would also strip workers of valuable rights. They would no longer be able to vote on a contract that their unions negotiated with management and submitted back for rank-and-file approval. This will make union leaders less accountable.
Arbitration would also make the difficult job of getting rid of a union harder. Federal law limits the time periods when workers can petition to decertify a union. For new unions, workers can petition if the union has gone a year without securing a contract. Under arbitration, workers could only boot their union at the end of the government-imposed contract. So the bill also provides a form of job protection — for unions, not workers.
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