We challenged American Rights at Work to debate EFCA a long time ago and so far they have refused our offer. Why won't they defend their own bill?
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SEIU in Oregon: For the love of the…?
Gov. Ted Kulongoski of Oregon has nominated Multnomah County Chairman Ted Wheeler to the position of State Treasurer, following the death of Ben Westlund on Sunday.
Want to know why Wheeler, and not another state representative Greg Macpherson, got the nod? According to The Oregonian:
“Kulongoski acknowledged that “part of it” was the opposition that Macpherson would [more...]
Transparent Hypocrisy at the DOL
This morning the Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) emailed me asking for comments and ideas “to help increase transparency, collaboration, and participation within DOL as part of the White House Open Government Initiative.”
The OLMS is the same agency that just rescinded a regulation requiring transparency in union slush funds (using the “T-1″ form). In fact, [more...]
EFCA has become a proxy war
The battle over EFCA has become less a battle about EFCA, and more a proxy battle in a larger conflict about political sway, public opinion, and economic ideology.
In the Huffington Post on Friday, third-generation union organizer Mike Elk asked “If EFCA is DOA, Why is the Chamber Still Lobbying Against It?” He wrote:
“For months now [more...]
Do you know who’s not one of the CEOs Obama admires?
Roger Smith, the CEO of American Income Life Insurance Company, that’s who.
Then again, insurance CEOs aren’t usually on anyone’s top-ten lists these days, that is, except for unions’.
Every time the unions need a CEO to embarrass other CEOs, they trot out Roger Smith.
Need someone to shill for the Employee Free Choice Act? There’s a CEO [more...]
Read more at LaborPains.org
A new survey of nine hundred and twenty-five (925) labor economists conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center for the Center for Union Facts illustrates a growing consensus among experts that increased unionization will have a negative effect on the economy. The survey further indicates that labor economists are overwhelmingly opposed to a bill currently before Congress that would radically overhaul existing labor law at the expense of American businesses.
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Today the Center for Union Facts (CUF) released an analysis of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) data which refutes union claims of widespread employer intimidation and lagging union win rates in organizing elections.
In 2007 and 2008 the NLRB received 4,208 unique petitions requesting a secret ballot election. During that span the NLRB determined that only 158 election-related ULP charges or 3.75% which alleged unlawful terminations had merit. The Board further determined that 309 such claims were without merit. These figures come from the NLRB?s Case Activity Tracking System (CATS) which is used to tabulate the statistics in the Board?s annual reports. A complete copy of the CATS database was obtained by CUF through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Union officials have made ending secret ballots for workers deciding whether to join a union their highest legislative priority. Instead of elections, they want a “card check” process that is set up for fraud and is unfair to working Americans. Learn more about the dangers of this union scheme in our new report, “When Voting Isn’t Private: The Union Campaign Against Secret Ballot Elections.” You’ll find out why:
- Union bosses want to end elections, even though they win more than 50% of the time
- Editorial pages from across America are denouncing card check and demanding secret ballot elections
- 75 percent of Americans think secret ballots are the most democratic method of choosing a union
Click here to view the report