Posted on May 22, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Senator Mel Martinez of Florida pens an op-ed in yesterday’s The Politico calling card check a false solution. Martinez highlights how EFCA effectively eliminates the secret ballot and explains the economically devastating consequences of binding arbitration. The senator packs his piece at the end with a punch, writing that he “escaped the communist oppression of […]
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The Los Angeles Times posted a partial transcript of remarks between the SEIU’s Andy Stern and the Times‘ editors and reporters. While they discussed a multitude of issues (including the SEIU’s involvement on those conference calls between the state and Obama administration), the conversation about EFCA proved to be most interesting. Stern brazenly claims that […]
Posted on May 20, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Labor may have been set back on card check, as the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. But as we said, that shouldn’t be a reason for opponents of card check to become complacent. The Politico details Senator Tom Harkin’s continued efforts to reach compromise with Democrats holding out on EFCA. According to lobbyists and aides, […]
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Oh Kate. Did you really just release another reheated analysis of your decade old survey of union organizers? You did. For those of you that don’t know Kate Bronfenbrenner, PhD, she’s the union-organizer-turned-union-researcher who wrote the first study suggesting that unions–I mean businesses, oops–routinely intimidate and fire workers involved in union organizing campaigns. Today she […]
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SEIU Local 1021 recently voted down their contract with the city of San Francisco, which has forced Mayor Gavin Newsom’s hand. Although SEIU leaders say they will bring the contract up again for a vote with their members sometime next week, Newsom said it may be too little, too late. Up to 1,000 city workers […]
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The Los Angeles Times reported on labor’s shortcomings on card check. The article said that labor unions have been “outmaneuvered” on what is supposed to be their top priority. A labor adviser who asked to remain anonymous admitted that they had been “outspent, outhustled, and outorganized.” Even John Wilhelm, the embattled leader of UNITE HERE, […]
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Today, J. Justin Wilson, Managing Director for the Center for Union Facts released the following statement about Kate Broffenbrenner’s study of employer behavior in union organizing drives. “Once again, former union organizer Kate Brofenbrenner reheats the results of the same biased, decade old survey of union organizers that has been debunked countless times,” said J. […]
Posted on May 19, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace chairman Brian Worth responded to The Washington Post‘s editorial on card check with his own op-ed. Worth makes several key arguments against some of the proposed compromises to EFCA. 1. Unions are not losing secret-ballot elections. Worth cites recent analysis of NLRB data by the Bureau of National Affairs […]
