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Posts Tagged ‘card check’

• Morning Bell: Snow Slows Obama’s Second Stimulus

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 9:52am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 38 comments

  The snowstorms that have already dumped over two feet of snow on the nation’s Capitol and that are threatening to dump another 12 to 16 inches, have ground the legislative process to a halt. But that might not be such a bad thing. Senate Democrats had hoped they could pass President Barack Obama’s second stimulus today, [...] More

• Why Unions Are Decertifying

  Posted September 16th, 2009 at 11:14am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 21 comments

  Sen. Arlen Specter, who opposed the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) when he was a Republican, recently announced that he has flip-flopped on the issue and will now be supporting EFCA-lite. As Specter described it, the latest version of the bill drops the card-check provision that has attracted so much controversy. This is a [...] More

• Employee Votes For Me But Not For Thee

  Posted September 10th, 2009 at 3:35pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 2 comments

  The President has promised big labor that after health care reform, he will turn to their top priority … the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). This legislation effectively eliminates secret ballot elections and replaces them with publicly signed union cards. But while Obama is promising to deprive workers in the private sector of their [...] More

• Big Labor Admits Employer Violations Rare in Elections

  Posted June 18th, 2009 at 11:59am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 0 comments

  Heritage fellow James Sherk reports: Organized labor argues that Congress should effectively take away workers’ right to vote in secret ballot elections because employers allegedly intimidate workers in the run-up to elections by firing and threatening to fire pro-union workers. However, a recently released study commissioned by two union-funded organizations, American Rights at Work and the [...] More

• The Real Reason Behind the Card Check Push

  Posted June 10th, 2009 at 11:56am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 5 comments

  The Wall Street Journal reports today: As recently as 2000, the [AFL-CIO's] 8.5 million members had a $45 million surplus. By June of last year it had $90.6 million in liabilities, or $2.3 million more than its $88.3 million in assets. … As for the SEIU, as recently as 2002 total SEIU liabilities were about $8 [...] More

• American Workers Deserve a RAISE

  Posted June 4th, 2009 at 2:45pm in Enterprise and Free Markets with 0 comments

  LIFTING THE PAY CAP ON 8 MILLION WORKERS Unions Cap Their Member’s PaySetting a Wage Ceiling: Currently union contracts set both a wage floor and a wage ceiling. Unionized employers may not give productive workers pay raises outside the collectively bargained contract. Seniority-Based Pay: Unions usually demand that employers reward workers for “time served” rather than “hard [...] More

• Morning Bell: How Big Labor Hurts You

  Posted May 22nd, 2009 at 8:46am in Enterprise and Free Markets, Ongoing Priorities with 14 comments

  Earlier this month, Service Employee International Union President Andy Stern told the Las Vegas Sun, “We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama — $60.7 million to be exact — and we’re proud of it.” Stern should be proud of his $60.7 million investment. There is a good chance that thanks to the Obama administration, [...] More

• Fact Check: Media Matters Wrong on Card Check Facts

  Posted May 19th, 2009 at 11:26am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 4 comments

  Media Matters has taken it upon itself to criticize our recent video highlighting the problems with the government-imposed contracts that the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) forces on workers and businesses. You can see the video here: In the video Rian Wathen, formerly of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) local 700 in Indianapolis, explains [...] More

• Dangers of EFCA: Government Imposed Contracts

  Posted May 15th, 2009 at 11:46am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 5 comments

  This video highlights a danger in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) that could be worse then taking away the secret ballot. EFCA gives government officials the power to impose contracts on employees if an “acceptable” contract with the union is not negotiated within 90 days. According former Union Organizer Rian Wathen says: If you put [...] More

• What Employer Advantage?

  Posted May 11th, 2009 at 11:01am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 3 comments

  The Washington Post editorialized today in favor of a compromise on card-check, including snap elections or mandatory union access to company premises, because – they argue – the current process too heavily favors management. They also criticized the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace for refusing to admit this. So here is a question for the Washington [...] More