Employee Free Choice Without Card Check: "Card Check Lite?"

So accommodations have to be made to get moderate Democrats to support EFCA. They forget that when the Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, their so-called "moderate" label didn't mean anything. They would have been glad to get a crumb if it was thrown their way. Well maybe EFCA will be weakened but whatever version is finally passed, it will be as good or as bad as the promise of the NLRB when it was created. The current law hasn't worked not so much because it is weak, but because the people who are supposed to enforce it (NLRB) have failed miserably. Ultimately, the NLRB will either make EFCA or break it. Under the present Secretary of Labor's (Hilda Solis) leadership, I believe that she will make sure every dot and every "i" in whatever form EFCA passes will be vigorously enforced. That's why there is a full court press to weaken it so that her hands will be tied. It's not about secret ballots. That's just the smokescreen.

AnRod of AZ 1:16PM July 19, 2009

Can any of you sheeple explain why the decline of the labor movement has coincided with the decline of the middle class?

Unions result in higher wages and better benefits. Most employers don't want you to see it that way because they don't want to pay you higher wages or give you better benefits. Simple.

Check out France. Their standard of living is very good: they have great health care and plenty of time off. And big surprise, the country's unions are more powerful than the unions anywhere else. When the government threatens to make life difficult for the working-class, they go on strike, shut the society down for a few days or weeks and the government backs off. France is arguably the only country on Earth where the People are actually in control.

There's a lot more to the world's economy than Fox Noise would like you to know.

Hilary Smith of CA 9:47PM July 17, 2009

is for the owners to adopt employee handbook provisions that mimic those typically found in union contracts---demonstrating that they are willing to give everything that can be given WITHOUT 1) the cost to employees of dues, 2) an adversarial spirit between management and labor, and 3) the generally unneeded influence of outside organizers/negotiators---who are mouthy but don't know s**t about the local company or business conditions.

I know. I worked at a place for 21 years that did this quite successfully. The owners I worked for learned to be both smart and gracious in this regard. BUT, THEY "LEARNED" AFTER AN 18-MONTH BRUSH WITH THE UNITED STEELWORKERS.

The purpose of the Employee Free Choice Act is not to get more money paid into unions. It is to scare employers into doing what they ought to be doing anyway. And after the resurgence of the "employment-at-will" emphasis since 1982, we certainly need this legislation.

Muser of NM 2:24PM July 17, 2009

These union make me sick. They think just because they get a job they should be granted some of the property rights that the owner is gaurenteed. IE To be safe and secure in his property and dispose of it as he wishes.

Not to mention the fact that these thugs just want to be able to KNOW whos against them so they can intimidate them right out of a job and get a reliable vote in his place.

Unions that exist in the same manner as the SEIU is virtually a criminal organization granted rights over and above all reason. This is equivilent to Britians Crown giving Monopolies to rich supports back in the days of mercantilism.

Its to bad these organizations just cant roll over and die.

Mike of NY 1:52PM July 17, 2009