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December 14, 2011
Battleships, Broadsides and the NLRB (Part 2 of 2)

EVANSTON, Ill. — As we predicted here several months ago (Could The Unions Still Clean Up?), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is continuing its pro-union agenda with the same thunder as a battleship blasting a broadside.

On June 21, the NLRB published the proposed changes it wants in rules governing union representation elections. When adopted, these rules will make the jobs of union organizers easier by handcuffing management and fast-tracking representation elections in which a company’s employees vote whether or not they wish to unionize.

Following the defeat in Congress of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would have allowed “card check unionization” and eliminated nearly all representation elections, union leaders are trying a different way to reach their easy organizing goals. They know “if you can’t legislate, regulate.” And the NLRB regulates labor relations in America.

December 12, 2011
Battleships, Broadsides and the NLRB (Part 1 of 2)

EVANSTON, Ill. — As we predicted here several months ago (Could The Unions Still Clean Up?), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is continuing its pro-union agenda with the same thunder as a battleship blasting a broadside.

On June 21, the NLRB published the proposed changes it wants in rules governing union representation elections. When adopted, these rules will make the jobs of union organizers easier by handcuffing management and fast-tracking representation elections in which a company’s employees vote whether or not they wish to unionize.

Following the defeat in Congress of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would have allowed “card check unionization” and eliminated nearly all representation elections, union leaders are trying a different way to reach their easy organizing goals. They know “if you can’t legislate, regulate.” And the NLRB regulates labor relations in America.

March 23, 2011
Could The Unions Still Clean Up? (Part 2 of 2)

CHICAGO — Executives of large drycleaning and laundry operations are awakening to an unfortunate fact: That although unions lost their battle in Congress for the Employee Free Choice Act—a.k.a. the “card-check” law—they may be winning the war to make organizing easier.

The Employee Free Choice Act would have allowed unions to organize employees just by obtaining “authorization cards” from a majority of a company’s workers  without a secret-ballot election. While the House passed the EFCA, the bill ran into such stiff opposition in the Senate that “compromises” were offered, including quickie elections that would have been held five to 10 days after a petition was filed.

 Businesses objected. Quick elections wouldn’t allow time for them to present their side of the case to employees, they said, which often includes the argument that the cost of negotiating labor contracts and work rules can hurt employers, and therefore, employees’ job security.

March 22, 2011
Could The Unions Still Clean Up? (Part 1 of 2)

CHICAGO — Executives of large drycleaning and laundry operations are awakening to an unfortunate fact: That although unions lost their battle in Congress for the Employee Free Choice Act—a.k.a. the “card-check” law—they may be winning the war to make organizing easier with Craig Becker’s recent appointment to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

July 27, 2009
Senators Drop Card-Check Provision of Employee Free Choice Act

WASHINGTON — Several Democratic senators have decided to drop a central provision of the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800, S. 1041) — the so-called “card-check” provision — to help secure a filibuster-proof 60 votes.

The provision would have required employers to recognize a union as soon as a majority of workers signed cards in support of it. Currently, employers can demand a secret-ballot election supervised by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

June 26, 2007
Republicans Block Card-Check Union Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican Senators yesterday blocked S. 1041, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would replace federally supervised, secret-ballot elections with a “card check” process to determine union representation.

The 51-48 vote demonstrated majority support for the measure but 60 “aye” votes were needed for consideration of the bill to continue.

June 25, 2007
Organized Cleaning?

EVANSTON, Ill. — Legislation is now being introduced to change the rules by which unions can organize private employers — including those in the commercial laundry and drycleaning industries. The bill was scheduled for a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives at the beginning of the month.

June 25, 2007
Tell Senate to Vote 'No' on Bill, TCATA Says

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Textile Care Allied Trades Association (TCATA) is calling on members and interested parties to contact their Senators to urge them to vote “No” on the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800/S. 1041).

The proposed legislation would amend the National Labor Relations Act to restrict the right of an employer to request a secret-ballot election for employees in union organizing activities. Effectively making union organization easier, the bill applies to small and large businesses alike, TCATA says.