Card Check Already Getting A Post Mortem?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 by Admin

The Minnesota Independent is already doing an autopsy of the campaign by union officials to push the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act. Two caveats: the paper is obviously sympathetic to the misguided legislation and the bill is actually far from dead. But the look at union efforts is interesting. A couple tidbits:

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One Response to “Card Check Already Getting A Post Mortem?”

  1. August 7th, 2009 at 9:25 am

    Jamie Hanson says:

    You forgot these inportant parts of the story in the MN Independent:

    Union organizers blame this decline [in union membership]in part on increasingly aggressive campaigns by employers to fight organizing efforts and weak labor laws that only offer a slap on the wrist to companies that break the law. Indeed, according to a study released in May by Cornell University professor Kate Bronfenbrenner, companies have become more brazen in their anti-union tactics. The study found that more than half of the companies examined threatened employees with wage cuts or shuttered work sites, and roughly one third fired workers for pro-union activities. Even when workers did vote to organize, the study found that more than half were without an initial labor contract after a year.