Category Archives: EFCA

Weekend Development: Big Labor Wants More “Payback” From President Obama

AP: PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama Shies Away From Protests Union leaders urged Vice President Joe Biden during a White House meeting last month to go to Wisconsin and rally the faithful in their fight against Gov. Scott Walker… Request rebuffed, they … Continue reading

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Congress Should Pass The Secret Ballot Protection Act

Representative Phil Roe (R-TN) writes in The Hill why Congress should pass the Secret Ballot Protection Act. Click here to tell your representative that you support this piece of legislation. For the past two years, unions have aggressively been seeking … Continue reading

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VIDEO: Big Unions, Big Money, Big Payback

Union bosses, after supporting their political allies over the last few elections, want “payback” at the expense of job creation and worker rights. And today, the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI) launches a new Web video demonstrating how much access the … Continue reading

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How Congress Can Legitimize Workplace Elections Again

The National Mediation Board (NMB) has become Big Labor’s latest tool for regulating and forcing workers into unions. Like most administrative agencies, the NMB has little accountability and American voters have little influence on their decisions as they often operate … Continue reading

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Shot/Chaser: Trumka on “Payback”

SHOT: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On MSNBC’s Morning Joe: Trumka: “This is payback to the big CEOs and to lobbyists that spent billions of dollars in the last election going after the workers in various states, whether it’s Ohio, Indiana, … Continue reading

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House Ok’s Bill to Head Off Card Check in VA

Virginia’s House has passed a bill to preclude efforts to make easier workplaces to unionize. The bill passed 63-32 Friday seeks to prevent “card check” from being put in place administratively by the National Labor Relations Board.

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Card Check Fight Escalates

Attorneys general in four states joined together to say they’ll fight back if the federal government carries out its threat to file lawsuits over the states’ new constitutional amendments that require secret-ballot elections before a company can be unionized.

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Proposed card check bill alarms CA agriculture

An “outrage” and “oppressive” are words some representatives of California’s agricultural industry use to describe a new bill they say could lead to intimidation of workers by union groups.

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