Employee Free Choice Act - DEBATE

DeeSays

3/9/2009 11:52 PM UTC

Labor can become the ultimate partner for business if it would just leave its antiquated, antagonistic model behind.

DeeSays

3/9/2009 11:51 PM UTC

I think unions can play a productive role in this economy, but it must acknowledge first that its former model is defunct. Demanding $30-50/mo from employees making $8-10/hr. in exchanger for the right to walk off the job is meaningless in this market. Labor should leverage its own numbers to create efficiencies for business, offer cross-training among its own member unions, offer language classes for immigrant workers, etc. Labor can become the ultimate partner for business if it would just

DeeSays

3/9/2009 11:43 PM UTC

rentedmule: business doesn't 'organize' in private. Moreover, your average employee seldom joins a company for the purpose of unionizing it - unless they are union plants. In many cases, a union is called in as a result of problems they're not even empowered to address - ex. employee conflicts, schedule conflicts, etc. As it stands today, all unions can guarantee is that they can strike.

DeeSays

3/9/2009 11:36 PM UTC

Demanding ease-of-organizing in a declining workforce is like building a damn during a drought. What is the statute-of-limitations on a signed card? How do you know the signature is valid?

rentedmule

3/9/2009 11:30 PM UTC

Sign up here to show your support for the Employee Free Choice Act: http://freechoice.seiu.org/page/s/obamavideo?source=adwords&subsource=obamavideo&gclid=CPO8xJaAl5kCFQpinAodHWVmaw

rentedmule

3/9/2009 11:26 PM UTC

Businesses can organize in private to make more money and so should the workers....yes?

DeeSays

3/9/2009 11:23 PM UTC

If unions are doing little more than demanding an ever-increasing piece of a static or decreasing pie, what good are they in this economic climate? Why won't unions instead leverage their numbers to offer efficiencies that would encourage partnership with business (ex. training, benefits, etc.)? Then, labor could get a place at the business table making themselves a function of the value center instead of the cost center. Demanding ease-of-organizing in a declining workforce is like building a

rentedmule

3/9/2009 11:23 PM UTC

All about the EFCA here: http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/