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Democrats and Unions will Spring the Employee Free Choice Act on the American People
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Democrats and Labor Unions will spring Employee Free Choice Act on the people: Ending Workplace freedom - nawer - Feb. 01 2007
What do the American people not get? Employee Free Choice Act ends collective bargaining as it is known. How many employees like Government deciding their contracts for them? How many employees will like all the union home visits in the middle of night?
New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has promised to place a newly introduced EFCA bill on the floor this spring calling it a "High priority" for Democrats.
There are three main components of EFCA:
- The central feature of the bill would outlaw secret ballot elections by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) among employees to decide whether to be represented by a union. Instead, the EFCA would permit unions to inveigle employees to sign "authorization cards" agreeing to labor representation in front of union agents.
- Second, the bill would give unions the power to invoke outside arbitration to gain a first contract, abandoning the American tradition of letting the parties settle their differences through good faith collective-bargaining. In other words, business owners would suddenly have no one to negotiate on "first contracts" they would be removed from the Bargaining process and forced to accept due to EFCA an outside arbitration process without their input and the one sided and unfair employment contracts with the unions that this would imply.
- Third, the bill would increase penalties against employers for certain labor law violations, requiring reimbursement three times the amount of wages lost by an employee and imposing civil fines of as much as $20,000 per incident yet would not levy harsher sanctions for union misconduct.
- Authorization cards are inherently far less reliable because they require employees to make a public rather than a confidential decision about unionization, thus subjecting them to peer pressure, harassment, coercion, and misrepresentation. One study showed 18 percent of employees who sign cards don't want the union.
- Unions can obtain commitments from employees without the employer's knowledge and thus gain representative status before the employer is able to make a case as to why unionization is not in the workers' best interest.
Why Union Arguments for EFCA are false:
NLRB election processes are too slow. According to NLRB statistics, in FY 2005, the median time between a union’s petition for a representation election and the holding of the election was only 38 days, and 94.2 percent of all elections were conducted within 56 days of a petition.
It is too hard for unions to get initial contracts with employers. Employers are already required, under penalty of law, to bargain with unions in good faith. Employers should not be forced to submit to onerous terms imposed by a third party that may jeopardize jobs and profitability.
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