Posts Tagged ‘Birmingham News’
Editorial: Employee Free Choice Act Is Still A Threat
The Birmingham News isn’t letting up on its watchful eye on the Employee Free Choice Act. The paper’s editors warn today that the bill isn’t dead and goes on to opine:
Big labor has made some mistakes in its frenzy to get politicians to support card check, and that may be what’s behind the renewed effort to get card check in front of Congress before adjournment. Labor targeted Arkansas U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln because Lincoln, a moderate Democrat, opposed card check. She defeated the labor candidate in the June 8 primary, and she’s not likely to be a friend to unions now if she wins in November.
With unions continuing to lose membership, they should be investigating what they’re doing wrong instead of trying to change the rules so drastically that they get an unfair advantage.
No Foolin’: “Anytime is the wrong time” for Employee Free Choice Act
Yesterday, 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.
