Probably on of the best pieces of proposed legislation to come out of Washington in years was the Employee Free Choice Act…this piece of work would have made it easier for workers to organize in their workplace….many industries and Repubs hated it, whic h is understandable because those two groups hate the worker, they tolerate them out of necessity.
But of all groups, Dems are at the heart of a weakening of the Act. Democrats! Yes, Dems…moderate Dems….or as I like to call them the Blue Turd Dems…..
Sam Stein writing for the Huffington Post:
On Thursday, The New York Times reported that a half-dozen senators “friendly to labor” decided to drop the majority sign-up provision from the Employee Free Choice Act. The measure would have made it easier to organize workers by allowing the formation of a union once more than 50 percent of workers signed cards in support of it.
Critics had dubbed the provision “card check” and had pledged to fight any legislative vehicle that contained it. Faced with the possibility of a heated political fight and a dead-certain filibuster, several major unions and congressional allies tried to muster the 60 Senate votes needed for cloture. The avenues weren’t there. And over the past two months,
The compromise legislation, as described to the Huffington Post, will contain several major labor priorities including requiring shorter time periods for a union election and containing some form of binding arbitration to prevent employers from dragging out a contract negotiation process. The measures, according to AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale, will let workers choose to join a union without intimidation, ensure that those who join a union get a first contract, and institute meaningful penalties for violations of labor law.
Once again, politicans are tweaking instead of finding a solution. The fun part about this is these gutless wonders are deemed “labor friendly”….what a joke! This whole strategy was a piece of crap…it was handled poorly and is going to set labor back even though there was high hopes with a Dem Congress and a Dem prez.
Silly voter….fooled again!
I have worked in both union shops and non union shops.
I will never again be a union member nor will I work in a forced to join union shop.
I worked as an organizer for awhile and I will agree that unions in the US today are not what is needed…organized labor is needed…I do not think that it will be mandatory that people job the union just that they have the choice to if they would like.