We challenged American Rights at Work to debate EFCA a long time ago and so far they have refused our offer. Why won't they defend their own bill?
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AFL-CIO Piles On Against SEIU
The AFL-CIO joined the rest of the labor movement yesterday in opposing the SEIU’s actions against UNITE HERE. Randy Shaw reported that the AFL-CIO sent a letter condemning any act of raiding other unions for members:
One day after 15 international union leaders vowed to provide “material and moral” support to UNITE HERE’s defense against SEIU [more...]
More Bank of America Hypocrisy From SEIU
The SEIU continues its bravado of hypocrisy with more plans to protest against Bank of America and its lending practices. The union is leading complaints by liberal interest groups that Bank of America encouraged its employees to inundate consumers with debt and enroll them in high-fee programs. It’s particularly amusing to see the SEIU display [more...]
A Warning About “Card Check Lite”
Glenn Spencer over at the Workforce Freedom Initiative has a piece warning about we might see emerge as the compromise version of EFCA.
Calling it “card check lite,” Spencer provides a good explanation of each of the potential elements that would make up a possible compromise:
A possible outcome of the compromise talks is a bill that [more...]
SEIU’s Amazing Hypocrisy On EFCA
The Daily News ran an editorial making similar arguments that I’ve made here about how the SEIU’s conflict with other unions is exactly why EFCA cannot be passed.
The SEIU is asking for the federal government to intervene against the NUHW, charging that signing a petition is not a good indication of what workers actually want. [more...]
Read more at LaborPains.org
Today the Center for Union Facts (CUF) released an analysis of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) data which refutes union claims of widespread employer intimidation and lagging union win rates in organizing elections.
In 2007 and 2008 the NLRB received 4,208 unique petitions requesting a secret ballot election. During that span the NLRB determined that only 158 election-related ULP charges or 3.75% which alleged unlawful terminations had merit. The Board further determined that 309 such claims were without merit. These figures come from the NLRB?s Case Activity Tracking System (CATS) which is used to tabulate the statistics in the Board?s annual reports. A complete copy of the CATS database was obtained by CUF through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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The Center for Union Facts (CUF) released a unique new poll which found that 82% of non-unionized American workers would not like their jobs to be unionized.
The poll, which was conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation of Princeton, New Jersey, clearly demonstrates that an overwhelming number of Americans have no interest in joining a union.
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Union officials have made ending secret ballots for workers deciding whether to join a union their highest legislative priority. Instead of elections, they want a “card check” process that is set up for fraud and is unfair to working Americans. Learn more about the dangers of this union scheme in our new report, “When Voting Isn’t Private: The Union Campaign Against Secret Ballot Elections.” You’ll find out why:
- Union bosses want to end elections, even though they win more than 50% of the time
- Editorial pages from across America are denouncing card check and demanding secret ballot elections
- 75 percent of Americans think secret ballots are the most democratic method of choosing a union
Click here to view the report