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Showing why we need the EFCA

by: Jay Stevens

Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 10:53:04 AM MST


Unbelievable (pdf):

In order to preserve my right to a secret ballot election, and for my own protection, I knowingly and without restraint and free from coercion sign this Agreement revoking and nullifying any union authorization card I may execute in the future. I hereby authorize Regis to submit this Agreement at such future time as any union seeks to establish majority status through any card check procedure and, based upon this Agreement, any union authorization card bearing my signature should not be countered to establish union majority status.

The parent corporation is protecting workers from themselves! And "free from coercion"? Hardly:

Gorder, who worked at the 10th Avenue South salon for eight years, said employees were called into a meeting earlier this month where managers played a video aimed at convincing them to resist unionizing.

"They were trying to scare the staff into signing that paper," Gorder said. "I don't feel like my staff or I should have signed it or should have had to sign it."

Gorder said she was pressured by her boss days later to get her staff to sign the document.
"She said, 'I would do what the company wants you to do,'" Gorder said.

I'm sure the Chamber of Commerce, that champion of workers' rights, will come galloping to the rescue, right?

Jay Stevens :: Showing why we need the EFCA
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I looks like the EFCA is getting farther instead of closer to passage. And (0.00 / 0)
that got me to thinking.

What's free choice about having to join a union just because somebody else wants to? Polling has shown that people don't like change.

It's like the health care issue. Some people already like what they have and they don't want to change, Some people do want to change and enroll in a public pool.

So why not set up a public labor pool option for those who want to be unionized. And those who don't can keep what they got if that's what they choose to do. Because this is about choice.

And since it's about choice we can get some Republicans on board and get this passed, in a bi-partisan way! Now that's great and it's a truly American solution.

I'm sure that many unions will see the wisdom of this "Labor Pool" idea just as many have  seen the wisdom of the "Public Option Pool in Health Care Reform." Choice is one of the guiding principles, and if it's good enough for health care, then I'm sure it's good enough for labor union organizing.

As I envision the "Public Labor Pool" it would be big and muscular, kind of like a combination of the UAW at their peak, the telecom workers, the air traffic controllers pre Reagan, the steel workers from 1948 and the longshoremen, the prison guards, and newspaper deliver people (newsies) the Wobblies, and The Mine Workers, all rolled into one giant public labor pool that would give them the muscle to negotiate contracts more efficiently and effectively. Less paper work too!

We owe it to ourselves to take the EFCA "off the table" and get serious about something we can pass.

Is this an idea whose time has come, or what?


Wat, you talkin' 'bout (0.00 / 0)
bringing back "open shops?"

Here, check out this treat. It'll bring tears to your eyes...!!! ;-)


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bringing back? (0.00 / 0)
They have those in 22 states right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

Also, the big labor pool thing - that's basically what the Wobblies want, but without the open shop thing, and all under the heading of the IWW, not the guvmint.  But funny post!  It's funny because it's true.  


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You ain't got 35 Democrats, much less 60 ... (0.00 / 0)
Move on.  

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