Posts Tagged ‘EFCA’
No Foolin’: “Anytime is the wrong time” for Employee Free Choice Act
Yesterday, the Birmingham News looks at the Employee Free Choice Act and it doesn’t like what it sees. Noting that 75 employees of the EFCA-driving Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have picketed their employer for laying them off (and filed discrimination charges), the paper opines:
The card-check bill is a horrible idea in a good economy; it’s even worse in the economy we’re living in today.
And you know when it comes down to a union actually picketing itself, like the SEIU is doing, organized labor doesn’t have a clue about the reality of the current recession.
More specifically, the paper looks at its own state and finds:
Alabama’s sagging economy really doesn’t need the card-check bill. Unions have been salivating to infiltrate the state’s automobile industry. So far, they’ve not gotten very far because union bosses know any effort to organize Mercedes or Honda or Hyundai will require a secret ballot.
Gorski Questions AFL-CIO Strategy on EFCA
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) 2009 National Chairman Jerry Gorski, president of Gorski Engineering, Collegeville, Pa., today issued the following statement in reaction to news that the AFL-CIO will support Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter
