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

In the Fargo-Moorhead Forum, Dave MacIver of Bismarck writes “Workers

This is a doozy:

Regarding the April 29 letter to the editor from Bob Guilfoyle of Shepherd on the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, Guilfoyle accuses me of “gross misinterpretation of the facts.”
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He asks me to tell it like it really is, so I will use his example and “imagine a U.S. serviceman returning from Iraq.”

Mr. Guilfoyle, imagine that veteran, defending our right to free speech and free elections, coming home only to find American employers and employees have lost those very rights to union organizers because of EFCA. Not only that, but if they are small business owners themselves, they do not have to be informed of a unionization effort in their own business. They might also now have their own government dictating a union contract in their workplace. Plus, they will now be subjected to increased fines and penalties, possibly for minor and procedural violations.

THAT really is how the Employee Free Choice Act would “work” for America. Contact our U.S. senators and tell them, “not in my country!”

The Washington State paper The Columbian has this article discussing the Employee Free Choice Act and the government’s recent reversal of good disclosure laws requiring union officials to report possible conflicts of interest:

It would be best for union members if (1) the pending Employee Free Choice Act remains stalled in Congress (and ultimately dies) and (2) Obama stops using the Department of Labor to coddle union bosses by keeping their work secret.

We got this news today:

The Independent Women

A couple things worth noting this morning:

In “Provision to Ease Unionization Likely to Drop Out of Bill,” reporter Kris Maher writes that card check may be dropped for “quickie elections”:

Among the changes being discussed are dropping the card-signing provision and setting a 21-day deadline for an election to be held — about the half the median of 40 days that union elections currently take, according to people familiar with the talks. An aide for Mr. Specter said the senator is “generally supportive” of the idea that an election must be held within 21 days if the employer wants a secret ballot.

Meanwhile, former Sen. George McGovern takes aim against binding arbitration:

My perspective on the so-called Employee Free Choice Act is informed by life experience. After leaving the Senate in 1981, I spent some time running a hotel. It was an eye-opening introduction to something most business operators are all-too familiar with — the difficulty of controlling costs and setting prices in a weak economy. Despite my trust in government, I would have been alarmed by an outsider taking control of basic management decisions that determine success or failure in a business where I had invested my life savings.

When it comes to labor disputes, both parties should be guaranteed a real chance for compromise under the joint economic threat of contract breakdowns. George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1979, had it right in condemning mandatory arbitration as “an abrogation of freedom.”

In spite of the pro-EFCA propaganda machine that has attempted to discredit ABC’s opposition to EFCA by painting ABC as an anti-union anti-worker trade association, it is important to note that ABC membership includes contractors and subcontractors who are signatory to building trade unions.

Union signatory ABC contractors employ members of local building trade unions, dispatched from local union hiring halls, to build construction projects.