Dakotan Looks To Pre-Empt Employee Free Choice Act
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 by adminInteresting item from South Dakota:
South Dakota has been an open-shop state since 1946, when a constitutional amendment passed to forbid using union membership as a condition of employment.
Now, the legislative majority leaders want to ensure that open-shop tradition will continue by means of another amendment – this time to pre-empt the federal Employee Free Choice Act.
The proposed amendment, from state Sen. Dave Knudson of Sioux Falls and state Rep. Bob Faehn of Watertown, simply would state that all elections, whether governmental or union, must be by secret ballot.
That news from the Argus Leader. It’s telling that politicians of any stripe have noticed the antipathy for EFCA is powerful enough to make an issue.
