Saturday, March 14, 2009

Just What American Business Needs - Bureaucrats Making All Their Decisions For Them

The Orwellianly named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) not only takes away the secret ballot during the union organizing process, it holds the sword of mandatory arbitration over the head of management, to reach agreement with the union, or be essentially taken over by government bureaucrats.

EFCA Authorizes Government Control of 4 Million Small Businesses: "Under EFCA government bureaucrats would impose:

* Wages and bonuses;
* Employment levels;
* Retirement and health care plans;
* Changes in business operations;
* Promotions procedures;
* Work assignments;
* Subcontracting; and
* Closure, sale, or merger of a business.[7]

The government would decide how many employees a firm hired, how much it paid them, how it promotes them, and what retirement and health benefits they receive."
This applies to businesses of any size. I'm naive enough to believe that this law would be overturned by today's Supreme Court. But what about tomorrow's? It seems our greatest hope against this Obamination is that Arkansas' two democrat senators dare not vote for this bill, given what it would do to Wal Mart.

Another example of the most blatant "special interest" political pay-off. The kind Barack Obama railed against during the campaign. The unions shoveled $450M into the Democrat Party's coffers during the past campaign cycle, so they will be paid off by passage of the EFCA, no matter what it does to the economy.

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