New EFCA-Plus, A Compromise for No One

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While Democrats claim new EFCA legislation represents a bipartisanship “compromise,” such language is misleading. Making no real concessions, new EFCA bills substitute one bad policy for another. AWF continues to oppose EFCA in all disguises. Senator Specter’s proposal is no different and still undermines worker rights in three key areas:

Last Best Offer Arbitration or “Baseball Arbitration

A government body appoints arbitration panels to write contracts between newly-unionized workers and employers based on previous negotiations, or offers

 

Arbitrators will likely be political appointees who could easily be pressured into, unfairly, ruling in favor of one side taking the choice away from workers

 

Arbitrators can still force employees into failing pensions

 

Employees are blindsided and forced to vote in an election only days after learning a vote will be held

 

Union organizers will decide when the vote will take place, so the election does not occur until organizers believe their support has peaked.

 

If a majority of workers oppose the union, the election will be put on hold until the union organizers can gather more support

 

Compromises the election process by rushing employees and denying them the chance to make an informed decision using a quicker time period

 

Does not give employers sufficient time to discuss the consequences of unionization

 

Workers could be subjected to union harassment as organizers would be permitted on worksites and free to communicate anything

 

Employers are required to allow union participation in private company-worker meetings held to discuss the negative effects of unionization

 

Inhibits employers from communicating freely with their workers

 

Don’t be fooled, EFCA is more of the same! Click here to contact your Senator and tell them to OPPOSE the Employee Free Choice Act.

 

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