The Crack-Up of Business's United Front Against the Employee Free Choice Act

Huffington Post by Art Levine | Mar. 24, 2009 (News Report)

On Monday, an unlikely new battle in the heated political war over The Employee Free Choice Act broke out: A fresh round of in-fighting among businesses over this major legislation that aims to give workers a level playing field to organize unions. The bill has been portrayed by Big Business as the apocalypse that would destroy a civilization. Now, however, big and small business leaders alike are taking aim at each other's views of the corporate hard-line ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Doug Greer - Mar 24, 2009 - 3:15 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 25, 2009

Levine reports the "compromise" suggested by some major retailers. Unlike the Washington Post article echoed in the local Seattle Times, Levine properly categorizes the proposal as a gutting of the EFCA. However, his opinions on the effect this will have lack many convincing sources.

Unions are needed to counter the vastly unequal bargaining power of an individual against a large corporation. Corporations threatening union organizers and firing them without cause needs to stop. Corporations stonewalling negotiations with a new union needs to stop. I am a 40 year proud union member.

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Doug Greer
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 by Doug Greer - Mar. 24, 2009
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