Posted on Jul 15, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Yesterday, Hawaiian Governor Linda Lingle vetoed House Bill 952, the state version of card check. Like it’s ugly older sibling, the Hawaiian version of EFCA would “have taken away the right of workers to vote by secret ballot on whether or not they would want to join a union, replacing it with authorization cards. … […]
Posted on Jul 14, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
We won’t know exactly what happened at yesterday’s closed-door meeting between President Obama and the dozen top labor bosses, but based on various accounts from the gathering, it doesn’t appear as if the White House is too eager to throw its political capital behind EFCA. President Obama said – as expected – that he still […]
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Overstock.com CEO Jonathan Johnson warned of EFCA’s consequences on business, focusing on the harmful effects of binding arbitration: “The government should make it easier for people to get hired, not harder,” Johnson said. “Binding arbitration says to me we are going to have federal agents come in and determine what the labor contracts are going […]
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Sorry I’m a little late on this one, but last weekend The Wall Street Journal featured an op-ed by Shikha Dalmia’s, which focused on the negative effects of binding arbitration. Dalmia’s research provides compelling arguments against the measure by utilizing examples of how binding arbitration has hurt state economies like Michigan and Massachusetts. Michigan has […]
Posted on Jul 09, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
The New York Times has a good article summarizing labor’s nasty infighting, which I have covered over the past few months. It’s worth reading in order to get a broader perspective on how extensive the union disputes have been. The article makes it clear that much of the conflict stems from, like the union push […]
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Labor’s scrambling to point out that Pope Benedict XVI “supports” card check: Labor groups said the Roman Catholic Church leader’s new encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), released this week “supports the principles of [EFCA].” Of course labor bosses aren’t in a hurry to tell people that Pope Benedict did not say anything about […]
Posted on Jul 08, 2009 by J. Justin Wilson
Richard Trumka, most likely the next president of the AFL-CIO, hinted that he will be a more militant and aggressive labor boss than his predecessors. Well, that’s a tough bar to clear, so it’ll be interesting to see what exactly the current AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer has in mind. I’m particularly curious to know what “innovative techniques” […]
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Was anyone shocked by this? Senator Al Franken’s (D-Minnesota) first co-sponsored bill was EFCA. It only took six hours after his swearing-in for Franken to announce that he had co-sponsored the bill: “As of about a half an hour ago, I became the co-sponsor of my first piece of legislation in the Senate,” Franken told […]
