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ABC Fights Against Employee Free Choice Act In Nation’s Newspapers
Associated Builders and Contractors is keeping up the pressure against the Employee Free Choice Act. This morning, 2009 National Chairman Jerry Gorski was quoted in the Washington Post and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the dangers to our economy from this anti-democratic bill.
The Washington Post, running a lengthy article capping the week of the bill’s introduction, carries ABC’s perspective (as well as including information on job-loss from the ABC-sponsored Alliance to Save Main Street Jobs):
The bill’s opponents go on to say that expanding union membership via “card check” would reverse a natural trend when business can least afford it. “It’s very clear that things have changed from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, and we need to change, as well,” said Pennsylvania building contractor Jerry Gorski, the national chairman of the Associated Builders and Contractors. “Just to go back to the old ways and say unions get a certain amount of pay is not a help to our society.”
Anne Layne-Farrar, an economist with the consulting firm LECG who produced a study predicting job losses if the bill passes, said in a conference call organized by employers that increased productivity had not resulted in larger wage gains in recent decades because the growth was mostly the result of technology. “If the productivity of labor went up, then the wages of labor would go up,” she said.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was hot on the trail of whether or not union officials are trying to buy the support of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter with the promise to help him in his upcoming re-election bid. The paper reports:
Still, it’s important to remember that 2010′s primary and general elections are still a year or more away — and a lot can happen in a year.
Indeed, Jerry Gorski, head of the Associated Builders and Contractors Association, and owner of an engineering firm in Montgomery County, acknowledged as much.
While he is strongly opposed to the bill, “I am not going to make up my mind on whether to vote for Mr. Specter only on this one issue,” he said.
See more of Gorski’s statement on the matter here.
UPDATE: The Washington Times quotes Gorski today.
