The proposed Employee Free Choice Act EFCA would fundamental

The proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would fundamentally change the 80 year old system through which employees choose to be represented by a union (or not).

Do you favor EFCA or the current secret ballot system? Please justify your response.

Use a minimum of one reference in addition to course references.

Solution

I do not favor, if you look at the recent numbers on union membership, it is on the decline. Theunions have lost about 12 percent membership in the last 60 years. They were a commandingpart of the work force back in the 1950s, taking up one third. Why invest in something that is onthe decline, but there is still a lot of membership. Harding suggests, unions actually harm theeconomy. Artificially high wages were one of the factors that drove GM and Chrysler intobankruptcy[Jef11]. The implement of the Card Check has the potential to completely reverse thistrend, which by the last statement would only perpetuate the decline of the economy. There are afew other drawbacks to the according to Deborah White, once 30% of workers have signed