Employee Free Choice Act Support: It’s Academic

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 by Admin

While talks of “compromise” still float around D.C., supporters of the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act are still giving it the ol’ college try. Take for instance news from the Service Employees International Union that 155 academics are urging Sen. Arlen Specter to support EFCA.

That support is not altogether surprising: academics frequently have little to no real-world experience in running successful private-sector businesses or in the ways in which union officials operate. Indeed, many pro-EFCA supporters are claiming that public-sector union organizing has shown card check can work without understanding or disclaiming the vast differences. Meanwhile, actual business owners know EFCA will hurt their businesses.

But support for EFCA reaches its limits at the academic walls. As we noted, just 15 showed up to support EFCA in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The public, while broadly supportive of the academic notion of unions, doesn’t like the reality it comes to stealing secret ballots.

And it’s for those very reasons that EFCA is in trouble. SEIU’s own Andy Stern has said so and now pro-labor academics are acknowledging that card check is a bad idea.

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