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

Employers are rotten, scurrilous, no-good-niks bent on nothing but ruining the lives of working Americans, right? That’s what you’d believe if you had no experience running a business or you spent too much time reading websites like “Workday Minnesota.”

For Big Labor’s biggest allies, the “solution” for this ostensible problem is the Employee Free Choice Act, which would increase union density by decreasing employer speech and employee rights (in the form of their diminished access to a real, private vote on whether to join the union and, later, the potential to have a government-imposed contract).

But how does one square that world view with the Workday Minnesota statement that card check “can be an advantage to employers as well as workers”?

Consider the logical equation. If (A) Employers are bad and want to harm employees and (B) card check is good because it diminishes employer power then how can it be true that (C) card check can be good for employers?

Well, there have certainly been stories of employers who felt threatened into accepting card check rather than an election, so maybe that’s what Workday Minnesota means. Or, maybe it can be an advantage if you become unionized and then try to rig the rules so that your competitors face the same issue, as in the case explained by this fantastic video from Reason.tv:

All in all, we are for employers and employees finding the fit that’s right for them, but we are firmly against a forcible policy that diminishes workplace flexibility and drives up costs will end up hurting everyone.