ABC Op-ed: Employee Free Choice Act Will Cost Jobs

Monday, March 16th, 2009 by admin

Associated Builders and Contractors CEO Kirk Pickerel wrote an op-ed in this morning’s Washington DC Examiner highlighting the problems with the Employee Free Choice Act, including the negative consequences it will have for American jobs:

A recently released study from noted economist Dr. Anne Layne-Farrar found the Employee Free Choice Act will result in “a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate for every three percentage point increase in workers organized.”

In other words, if the Employee Free Choice Act results in a 10 percent increase in unionization, the unemployment rate would increase by more than three percent. If the Employee Free Choice Act had passed in 2007, the unemployment rate could be a shocking 11.6 percent instead of the 8.1 percent released last week – which is already the highest since 1983.

The impact of the Employee Free Choice Act would be especially disastrous in the construction industry, where the unemployment rate is already over 18 percent.

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