tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post1405922758157574718..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: What's This Card Check Stuff All About?ed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-27837604243432037732009-12-09T02:47:35.121-05:002009-12-09T02:47:35.121-05:00Interesting! I have always wondered about how thes...Interesting! I have always wondered about how these things work, now more or less I already have a picture of how things go! Thanks!Alisonhttp://www.shopaira.com/servlet/the-Brand-cln-Juicy-Couture-cln-Tracksuit-Separates-cln-Pants/Categoriesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-78103986851123951302009-01-24T21:50:00.000-05:002009-01-24T21:50:00.000-05:00Based on my experience as a staffer with the music...Based on my experience as a staffer with the musicians union, the employer does not see who signed authorization cards. <BR/><BR/>The employer provides a list of employees, and a mutually-agreed upon third party checks off the cards against the employee list.<BR/><BR/>The practical, real-world problem with union elections is that it's very easy for management to manipulate an NRLB process that over the decades has become much more amenable to employers. In the interim, while the Board is permitting all sorts of delays, the boss is putting the squeeze on the bargaining unit, cajoling, threatening, lying, conducting mandatory meetings where all sorts of distortions are put out. <BR/><BR/>The purpose of EFCA is to short-circuit that process, which has become so slow that most unions have given up on even trying to use it. The problem is that the AFL-CIO has not done enough to educate even its own members about the importance of it, while the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and anti-union propaganda and PR shops are making headway demonizing it as anti-democratic and un-American. Canada has card-check, one reason why it has much higher union density.<BR/><BR/> The fact that Obama has given some signals that he may not fight for it does not bode well, either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com