Big Labor Meets - Profanity Ensues

Jun 30, 2009

There are three provisions in the Employee Free Choice Act. First is card check, which would allow rapid organizing by publically gathered signatures of support. Justin Wilson reports how the SEIU, a card-check backer, feels about that:

The SEIU is asking for the federal government to intervene against the NUHW, charging that signing a petition is not a good indication of what workers actually want.

The second provision would force employers and employees to accept government mandated contracts if a negotiated agreement is not achieved within a certain time frame. How do unions feel about that?

...Laborers President Terrence O'Sullivan had this to say in response to the SEIU's call for binding arbitration: "There is no goddamm way I'd ever agree to binding arbitration when it comes to the future of my core jurisdiction"

Now that Big Labor has recognized that two out of the three provisions in the EFCA are not good business practices can we please just kill it?

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