Are Unions Wanted?

If you had a choice to join a union would you? That is a question you might have to think about. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is a bill much coveted by labor unions that would do away with secret-ballot voting when they're trying to organize a company workforce. Under U.S. law stretching back to the 1930s, workers decide if they want to join a union by casting a secret ballot in a government-monitored election. Organized labor and its Democratic Party vassals want to change that to a so-called card check procedure; a union would simply present signed cards from more than half the affected workers, and poof! The union is in charge, no election muss or fuss. So if you did not want to join a union at your work place and 51% of your fellow employees voted to join a union guess what, there is now a union at your work place. There have been stories of people being harassed because they did not want to join a union. What would you do if you were cornered or the union came to your house asking questions? This is not only bad news for employees but for employers also. If you own a business and your employees voted a union in you would have 130 days to prepare a contract and if you didn't then it would go to the government and they would decide how much you have to pay your employees. This could cause people to shut down there business, scale back the workforce or go over seas with there company. This would cause unemployment to rise further than it is now. Now unions can be beneficial when done right but with all the union ties to government it may be a good idea to stay away from unions.