Posts Tagged ‘Jim Elmer’
ABC Chairman: Obama Admin’s Card Check Will Kick Construction Industry When It’s Down
ABC 2010 national chairman Jim Elmer writes about project labor agreements and card check over at the Seattle Times. Pertinent to our interests:
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would strip a worker’s fundamental American right to a federally supervised secret-ballot election when deciding whether to join a labor union and replace it with a “card check” system. This would leave the worker vulnerable to coercion and harassment by union officials. EFCA could also force workers and businesses into binding wage and benefit contracts. These contracts would be set by a government bureaucrat with no required knowledge of the industry and would be binding for two years. Studies have shown that if EFCA became law, 600,000 jobs would be lost in the first year alone.
Entire article here.
