Posted by
misteray on Friday, March 20, 2009 8:18:40 PM
As if Auto Dealers didn't have enough problems...here comes the Employee Free Choice Act!
The Employee Free Choice Act changes the way unions are organized. The irony is that the Employee Free Choice Act (HR800 and S1041) introduced into the 110th Congress, effectively eliminates choice by doing away with the Secret Ballot and formal elections...and replacing them with a "Card Check" system.
Instead of a secret ballot workers will be asked to sign cards until a majority of employess agree to have a union represent them.
Since organizers will know who signed and who didn't, workers are much more open to intimidation. And since there's no formal election, the card signing can be done in secret, denying management the opportunity to present an alternative view.
Once a majority of workers have signed cards, dealers have 120 days to agree to a collective bargaining agreement. If an agreement is not reached, the goverment steps in and sets the contract for two years. How about that for "choice."
No election, no secret ballot. All the union organizers need is 30% of the workers to sign a card and voilla.
This is just one more thing flying under the radar that the Obama administration is working diligently to pass...making it easier for their union cohorts to organize...effectively closing more dealerships and adding more disgruntled workers to the welfare roles.
If you think your service and repair bills are high now...wait until the dealerships become unionized.
Think it can't happen? The average dealership has about 50 employees (20 technicians). How much is 30% of 20? Six! All the union needs to do is persuede six technicians, to unionize the whole shop.
As if the unions haven't done enough to jeopordize the survival of the auto industry already.
Here is Wisdom:
"It's better to be prepared for that which does not come...then unprepared for that which does."
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Better yet, go to AIADA's Legislative Action Network's Take Action Center to send a letter to your members of Congress. Urge them to opposse the Employee Free Choice Act.
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