Reply #40: EFCA is krap; this compromise is worse

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The Employee Free Choice Act is badly flawed.

This Bill only sets ground rules for employees who are involved with Unions in some way. Back here in real life; about 87% of us across the US are not going to have an opportunity to join a Union.

In fact, I'd say this bill unfairly discriminates against Non Union employees and should be voted down on this basis alone. Employees need an Employees Bill of Rights.

Employees who have a choice to join a Union, ought to be able to pick a good union -- one that doesn't coerce them as members and gives them fair and unbiased representation at all levels of the union organization. Real Union oversight and reform should be a part of this Bill just like real Employer-Employee legal reform should be a part of this Bill. Workers involved with an organizing effort, should have some significant assurance that a GOOD Union is behind the effort.

How are employees going to decide whether to have a public vote (card check) or a secret ballot? Are they going to vote publicly about whether they will vote privately?

This new proposal is the kind of plan I would expect from a bunch of Conservative Democrats who don't like unions but don't want to be caught at it. Their sly plan would allow managers to continue to coerce employees individually over long periods of time, while granting union organizer a formal, last minute public group meeting or two, at which they would PUBLICLY vote whether to have a PRIVATE vote -- under the watchful eyes of every single supervisor and manager they report to.

It's absurd.

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Because EFCA is flawed, it makes room for horrible compromise proposals like this to sneak their way into the action.

This compromise proposes a new, vague rule limiting management coersion. It might make a "humane" employer feel good, but no employee would ever be able to enforce it as a practical matter. It is no real compromise at all; just a restatement of what the law already says. We already know it doesn't work.

This compromise also proposes nonbinding Arbitration.

Let me get this straight: After risking my job, being strong-armed by my supervisor, being forced to vote publicly to hold a public/private election, and then voting and winning the election to organize; my employer STILL isn't obligated to listen to me OR to my new Union?

Why even take a vote in the first place? A non-binding election is an empty election unless both sides are guaranteed quick, fair arbitration.


I'm beginning to think that the Employee Free Choice Act is just bullshit with chocolate syrup on it.

This compromise is just bullshit.

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