To: The Detroit News
Re: “Wal-Mart’s anti-union agenda”, James P. Hoffa, Sept. 12.
Mr. Hoffa in his Labor Voices column again states that the Employee Free Choice Act will not remove secret ballot elections for workers deciding to form a union. To say that it does is just a scare tactic and is simply not true.
Under House Bill (H.R. 800) EFCA, an employer would no longer have the opportunity to demand a secret ballot election when a majority of employees have signed union cards and there is no evidence of illegal coercion. The same legislation would also revoke the ability for states to adopt a right-to-work state status.
Michigan’s economy is in dire straits while economies of states like Texas, Florida and Arizona are growing, along with their populations and their workers’ incomes. They are all right-to-work states and they are taking jobs from unionized Michigan. Legislation making unionization easier for the unions seems, when looking at economic reality, counterintuitive.
Re: “Wal-Mart’s anti-union agenda”, James P. Hoffa, Sept. 12.
Mr. Hoffa in his Labor Voices column again states that the Employee Free Choice Act will not remove secret ballot elections for workers deciding to form a union. To say that it does is just a scare tactic and is simply not true.
Under House Bill (H.R. 800) EFCA, an employer would no longer have the opportunity to demand a secret ballot election when a majority of employees have signed union cards and there is no evidence of illegal coercion. The same legislation would also revoke the ability for states to adopt a right-to-work state status.
Michigan’s economy is in dire straits while economies of states like Texas, Florida and Arizona are growing, along with their populations and their workers’ incomes. They are all right-to-work states and they are taking jobs from unionized Michigan. Legislation making unionization easier for the unions seems, when looking at economic reality, counterintuitive.
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