Posted on Jun 24, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
The Chicago Sun-Times editorializes against the hilariously misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act”: Tellingly, the California Democrat who pushed it through the House, George Miller, co-authored a 2001 letter to Mexican labor officials that took a rather different stance: “We feel that the secret ballot is absolutely necessary in order to ensure that workers are not […]
Posted on Jun 23, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Remember that SEIU-backed group called ACORN, which supposedly wasn’t really tied to voter fraud (even though troubling incidents have popped up in more than a dozen states)? You can add another state to your play-at-home Rotten Acorn map. Here’s the latest out of Washington State: Prosecutors in King County are looking at possible criminal charges […]
Posted on Jun 22, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
Former Senator John “I Learned About Poverty At A Hedge Fund” Edwards has again endorsed “card check” organizing legislation. The Hair Apparent was down with a handful of disgruntled employees of Smithfield, a food-packing company that is in the crosshairs of the United Food and Commercial Workers bosses. The UFCW chiefs are actively engaged in […]
Posted on Jun 21, 2007 by Jon Berry
One of the most common arguments advanced in defense of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act is that union membership levels are kept unfairly low by employer intimidation. No matter how widespread this phenomenon is (and our research using National Labor Relations Board data indicates that only 2.7 percent of union organizing campaigns feature an […]
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… over at Shopfloor.org.
Posted on Jun 20, 2007 by Bret Jacobson
The Center for Union Facts crew continued our campaign to raise the public’s awareness of the ridiculous “Employee Free Choice Act.” Today we brought brought the ol’ trusty dinosaur to the Capitol to ask Senators one simple question: Why are union dinosaurs trying to make secret ballot elections extinct? We didn’t get a satisfactory answer, […]
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My colleague and blogmate Bret Jacobson here at the Center for Union Facts landed himself an op-ed in yesterday’s Eugene (OR) Register-Guard, explaining why the Employee Free Choice Act is such a bad deal for employees and their free choices: Right now, our laws allow employees a secret-ballot election and choice when deciding to unionize […]
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Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao weighs in against the horrifically misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act” in today’s Wall Street Journal. She writes: It is incredible that interest groups who say they are advocates for workers are striving to end workers’ opportunity to have private union elections. Coincidentally, or not, unionization has shrunk in the past […]
