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n Employee Free Choice Act "EFCA" will be the top agenda item for unions during the next Congress
n Union win rate explodes to over 60% of NLRB elections in recent years
n Mandatory card checks to substitute for NLRB secret ballot elections.
n AFL-CIO and Change To Win Pledge $750 million for new organizing.
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In 2005, unions including the SEIU, UNITE HERE, UFCW, and the Teamsters broke away from the AFL-CIO to form the new competing CHANGE TO WIN labor federation pledged to more aggressive new organizing.
Faced with this new competition, the AFL-CIO threw its support to the remaining unions – further intensifying union organizing efforts nationwide. This radical reform has led to extraordinary organizing victories in both NLRB elections and election-free card checks resulting in the first growth in union membership in the last 35 years.
In 2007, a law deceptively named the Employee Free Choice Act "EFCA" passed the House of Representatives and enjoyed majority support in the Senate. It will be reintroduced in the first 100 days of the 2009 Congress and if elected, Barack Obama has pledged to sign it – effectively eliminating NLRB elections.
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If signed into law, it would reverse years of workplace democracy under the National Labor Relations Act mandating union recognition without an election.
What are you doing now to prepare for this?
n The union organizing threat is real
n The stakes are higher than ever before
n Your organization could be next
It's a whole new battle — and only those employers who know the law and the new union organizing strategies can emerge from the fight union-free. |
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