Another “Really Dark Side” of Card Check Law

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by Admin

David Nye, professor of Management at Athens State University in Alabama, has a great article on more ways to look at the downside of the Employee Free Choice Act.

In particular, our attention was drawn to the negotiation aspect of EFCA and the way in which it would replace a responsible system currently in place with an absurd method of binding interest arbitration:

Like EFCA, current law forces employers to deal with union quasi-monopolies, but unions still must either temper their demands or put them to the test of the market when an employer digs in. Can employees strike and find in the market the wages and benefits they seek, leaving the struck firm unable to find qualified replacements at its current pay rates?

Under EFCA, this check on excessive union demands disappears. Through its arbitration panels, the Obama administration would effectively write labor contracts to fulfill the wishes of its union friends, and union monopoly would no longer be

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