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What Does the Secret Ballot Protection Act (SBPA) Do? Unions are turning to card check. Unions…
Jason Richwine discusses public vs private sector unions. …
Brett McMahon, vice president of Miller & Long Construction, details the expected detrimental effects of the Employee Free Choice Act on his business, including his company's ability to continue providing pension benefits to his employees. …
Over the past generation, the Labor market has changed profoundly. Computers have automated many manual and repetitive tasks. The share of American workers employed as operators, fabricators and laborers or in precision production craft and repair occupations has fallen by 10 percent. Robots have relieved many workers of the tedium of the assembly line. Today's employers…
Rian Wathen, former Collective Bargaining Director for the UFCW Local 700, Indianapolis, discusses the binding arbitration provision in the Employee Free Choice Act. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) gives government officials the power to impose …
Fifty years ago, Congress passed the landmark Landrum-Griffin Act to protect rank-and-file union members from malfeasance by union leaders. Senate hearings had uncovered serious corruption and other unethical practices inside the labor movement, and a bipartisan coalition emerged to shine the light of disclosure on union practices. Nevertheless, Democrats in Congress and in the executive branch have…
Rian Wathen, former Organizing Director for the UFCW Local 700, Indianapolis, discusses different tactics union organizers use to get employees to sign union authorization cards. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would eliminate the secret-ballot …
Do you like your boss? Would you like a new boss? If Congress passes the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), it might not matter - the government could make every important decision for your company. The government would decide how much you're paid, what health and retirement benefits you…
Heritage In Focus: Employee Free Choice Act: Binding Arbitration …
Labor expert James Sherk outlines the problems with Big Labors proposed binding arbitration legislation. …
A steady decline in union membership has led union organizers and sympathetic politicians to introduce "labor reform" legislation designed to make it easier for unions to gain representation rights over more workers without becoming more accountable to those workers. The main labor reform bill before Congress, the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800), contains two…
Revised and updated March 6, 2009 Since the passage of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, the government has protected the privacy of workers considering joining a union through secret-ballot elections. . Labor unions now allege that secret-ballot elections are so inherently unfair that they do not reflect workers' true choices. They want Congress…
Under the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, H.R. 800), if a union and management cannot agree to terms on the first contract after a union is recognized, either side could send the dispute into binding arbitration. This means that both workers and management must accept what is, at bottom, an arbitrator's educated guess at what…
While it is widely known that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, H.R. 800) would strip workers of their right to vote in private on joining a union, the bill contains an equally harmful provision that has attracted much less attention. EFCA would allow unions to send negotiations on their first contract with an employer…
Revised and updated March 6, 2009 Both sides in the card-check debate say they seek to protect workers' freedom to decide whether to join a union. Card check supporters argue that union organizing elections are "intensely coercive" and that Congress should replace private ballots with publicly signed cards to protect workers' choice.…
Democratic elections are a fundamental right in America. Private ballots, such as those cast in the privacy of the voting booth, ensure that voters can express their wishes without pressure or fear of reprisal. American workers should have this right, too, when they vote on whether to join a union. But the drive to…
Union activists argue that government-supervised secret-ballot organizing elections are "inherently and intensely coercive" and that publicly signing a union membership card in the presence of union organizers, known as card-check organizing, is the only way that workers can freely choose to unionize.[1] But due to union organizers' techniques, card checks often do…
Labor activists argue that the government supervised secret ballot election process unfairly favors employers. They claim that even when employers follow the law, the system favors employers who want to remain union-free.[1]But in reality, the current election laws favor union organizers, not employers. Federal law severely restricts what employers may say and…
Corporate campaigns have become organized labor's preferred tactic to recruit new dues-paying members. In a corporate campaign, unions hit companies with constant negative publicity, litigation, and regulatory investigations that put severe financial pressure on the firm. In most cases the company has done nothing wrong, but the union will not let up until it agrees…
The misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, H.R. 800) is organized labor's top legislative priority. The portion of the bill that ends union organizing elections has received the most attention and criticism. No less dangerous, however, is a binding arbitration provision that would empower government officials to set workers' wages and working conditions. Binding arbitration could…
Revised and updated June 20, 2007 Labor activists argue that Congress should pass the Employee Free Choice Act because employers routinely intimidate and fire workers who try to unionize. Employers, they claim, have retaliated against pro-union workers in one-quarter of organizing elections, discriminating against or firing more than 31,000 workers who wanted to…
Revised and updated March 6, 2009 Organized labor's highest legislative priority, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA, H.R. 800), would replace secret ballot union organizing elections with "card check," in which union organizers publicly solicit workers' signed union authorization cards. If a majority of a company's workers sign cards, they all automatically join…
Revised and updated June 20, 2007 Labor activists argue that secret ballot organizing elections are stacked against workers who want to join a union. Companies, they allege, systematically fire pro-union workers, threaten to shut down if their workers unionize,…
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Secret ballots protect voters from intimidation. As long as a vote remains private, no one can retaliate against...…
Big Labor’s number one priority in the 111th Congress was the Employee Free Choice Act. Also known as check, the law...…
Predicting the extent of “lame duck” legislative shenanigans that would ensue if one or both houses of Congress...…
The snowstorms that have already dumped over two feet of snow on the nation's Capitol and that are threatening to...…
Sen. Arlen Specter, who opposed the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) when he was a Republican, recently...…
The President has promised big labor that after health care reform, he will turn to their top priority … the misnamed...…
Heritage fellow James Sherk reports: Organized labor argues that Congress should effectively take away workers' right to...…
The Wall Street Journal reports today: As recently as 2000, the [AFL-CIO's] 8.5 million members had a $45 million...…
LIFTING THE PAY CAP ON 8 MILLION WORKERS Unions Cap Their Member’s Pay Setting a Wage Ceiling: Currently union...…