“So-called card-check legislation would be a job-killer, bad for employers and employees alike”
Friday, March 20th, 2009 by adminOver at the National Journal, Stuart Taylor Jr. makes a calm, rational case against the Employee Free Choice Act and its negative effects on employees and businesses alike:
More broadly, while employees’ rights to unionize are an essential source of leverage to extract a fair share of the fruits of their labor from profit-maximizing employers, it does not follow that the more unions, the better. Even the best unions often introduce inefficiencies such as the thousands of pages of work rules imposed by the United Auto Workers during its heyday.
The most enlightened employers are those that fend off unionization by giving their employees everything that they could get through a union without raising labor costs so high as to lose the competitive edge and profitability on which their employees’ long-run job security depends.
And the worst economic crisis since the 1930s would be an odd time to shift the balance of power so far in favor of unions as to risk sending such employers the way of General Motors.
Tags: EFCAnomics, Jobs
