No Foolin’: “Anytime is the wrong time” for Employee Free Choice Act
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 by adminYesterday, 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.
Tags: Alabama, Birmingham News, Editorials, EFCA, Protecting Secret Ballots
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Hilary Smith says:There’s no reason why free men should be prevented by law from organizing as they see fit. We shouldn’t even need the EFCA because employers never should have gotten to the point where they have so much power to interfere. Employee exploitation is wrong even if workers are poor and desperate and even if the economy is bad. The EFCA has been a long time coming.
April 5th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
admin says:Hilary, organizing as a right is a funny thing because it cuts both ways: unionizing laws in the U.S. make sure that people who don’t want to have a union are forced into one, which is why EFCA can be very troubling. Somehow that point managed to escape those crafting the “reform” in EFCA.