Workforce Fairness Institute: Sen. Harkin needs to tell the rest of the story

The so-called Employee Free Choice Act may be down, but it is not out. One of the bill's sponsors, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), has figured out that EFCA means FORCED choice--at least in regards to doing away with secret ballot voting.

From a Workforce Fairness Institute press release:

The Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI) today issued the following statement in response to comments by Senator Tom Harkin, member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and co-sponsor of the Employee 'Forced' Choice Act (EFCA).

"Today, Senator Harkin acknowledged what many of us have known for quite some time: eliminating the secret ballot in union-organizing elections does not have the support of the American people or their representatives in the U.S. Congress," said Katie Packer, executive director of the Workforce Fairness Institute. "Sen. Harkin should take this opportunity to tell the union bosses the rest of the story: the binding arbitration component of the Employee 'Forced' Choice Act is also a non-starter. Working Americans and small business owners will not stand for job-killing legislation that eliminates the rights of workers to vote on contracts and invites government bureaucrats into the workplace."

Read more about FORCED choice arbitration in the below post:

Report from the bloggers' teleconference about Employee FORCED Choice binding arbitration

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