Card Check Bill Unpopular Any Way You Slice It
Friday, October 30th, 2009 by AdminColoradans don’t like the Employee Free Choice Act — not one bit. That’s the takeaway from a new poll conducted over two weeks in October. But the poll went beyond EFCA as it is written right now, which includes binding interest arbitration and card check, to investigate opinion on potential changes to the bill.
Here are some interesting findings that ought to inform legislators:
A majority of respondents said they favored some clauses that could be added to the bill, such as a provision applying the same increased penalties to union organizers who break workplace unionization rules as are currently applied to companies breaking such rules in the proposed bill, according to results.
But majorities of more than 70 percent opposed other potential additions to the bill, such as a ban on employer meetings to discuss unionization or a requirement that unions be allowed into the workplace to conduct organizing campaigns. Seventy-four percent of Colorado respondents opposed the card-check provision at the center of the bill, the survey said.
The final toll: people only want EFCA if it is not at all EFCA. They want it to be fair and penalize bad behavior, but not enact a per se penalty on employer speech. And, of course, card check is still a massive loser.
