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Former Union Organizers Speak Out

The Labor Relations Institute posted snippets of video online that shows former union organizers speaking out about the tactics and techniques they have used to get employees to sign union authorization cards (”card check”). I believe these are excerpts from longer videos which LRI produces and sells that can be shown to employee populations for [...]

Choice or Who Chooses?

In the last post, I started to try and unravel the dispute about “choice.” Various pro-business groups and media are saying that the secret ballot election would go away under EFCA, and that workers would not have a choice.
Technically, that appears to be false. What changes is who gets to make the choice. Who chooses [...]

Union Proponents Take Message to Airwaves

Last night, while watching Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, I saw a television commercial by proponents of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). If memory serves, this commercial has run before. Now that EFCA has been introduced into Congress, expect to see this campaign escalate.

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SCRIPT:
SCREEN: Headline: Frantic Day on Wall Street as Banks Fail [...]

What is EFCA? The Long & Short

Not everyone is up-to-speed about the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). How one defines it depends upon your position, pro-business or pro-labor. Here are two different perspectives that epitomize the distinction:
Pro-Business Source: SHRM, Society for Human Resource Management
Gist: “SHRM strongly opposes the Employee Free Choice Act”
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Require the NLRB to certify a union [...]

Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way

Wondering whether to take EFCA, the Employee Free Choice Act, seriously?
WALL STREET JOURNAL
By KRIS MAHER  (March 4, 2009)
MIAMI — President Barack Obama told AFL-CIO union leaders Tuesday in a videotaped address that the controversial Employee Free Choice Act will pass, signaling his full backing for legislation that makes union organizing easier.
“We will pass the Employee [...]