WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- If Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats win next Tuesday's election, they will likely have far more negative impact on the economy and American jobs than most voters realize, says Peter A. List, editor and chief blogger of EmployerReport.com.
"Very few Americans realize that Democrats have become the bought-and-paid for tool of labor union bosses," says List, a former union activist. "If elected, these politicians plan to repay their union backers big time."
Unfortunately, too few American voters realize that Democrats plan to effectively strip workers of their right to decide on unionization through a secret-ballot election by passing the misleadingly-named Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) within the first few weeks of an Obama presidency.
"The problem with EFCA is not only does it subject workers to unionization through trickery, manipulation and high-pressure tactics, but it also forces a company into a union contract through binding arbitration," List explains. "Having a government bureaucrat with no knowledge about or interest in a company's success or failure determine what an employer should pay its employees will cause many companies to become uncompetitive and, as a result, more workers will lose their jobs."
It is believed that EFCA will be signed into law by Valentine's Day and, while many politicians and pundits have focused their attention solely on the anti-democratic provisions of EFCA's effective removal of the secret-ballot election, most do not realize that the real job killer will be binding arbitration. However, once EFCA becomes law, union bosses aren't finished, List warns.
"To further aid union bosses," List states, "once EFCA gets signed into law, Americans in 22 states should also expect to see their right-to-work status be eliminated."
On July 10th, a bill (HR 6477) was introduced into Congress that ends so-called Right-to-Work laws. There are currently 22 so-called right-to-work states wherein it is illegal for a union to require a worker to pay union dues as a condition of employment. During the Democratic primaries, presidential-hopeful Barack Obama indicated that he is opposed to right-to-work laws which means that, under a Democrat-controlled Congress, right-to-work laws will likely be eliminated.
Passage of this bill will result in unionized workers in all 50 states being required to pay union dues or be fired from their jobs under so-called "union (income) security agreements," which is something labor bosses have desired since 1947 when right-to-work laws were established.
"Little do people know in swing states like Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, and Virginia that, by backing Barack Obama and other Democrats in this election cycle, they are likely voting to take away their own right to vote on unionization as well as allowing unions to force them to pay union dues or be fired," states List.
A further piece of legislation that will reward big union bosses if Democrats win big on November 4th, is the under-reported R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Act, which makes potential union members out of many people now deemed to be supervisors by their employers.
"Since there is substantial evidence that pro-union legislation prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s," List explains, "Barack Obama and his Democrat co-horts will likely inflict very real pain on employers, their employees, as well as the economy."
"Unions do not create jobs, companies do," says List. "Sadly, all of the bills that are on the union agenda will, if passed, make it extremely unattractive for larger companies to continue to do business in America. In addition, many smaller companies unable to do business at all under the weight of unionization."
"Depending on the outcome on November 4th," List concludes, "if Democrats win big, the real losers could very easily be American workers. It is very likely that Americans will see more jobs destroyed as a natural economic reaction to the Democrats' payoff to their union backers."
Peter A. List is Editor & Chief Blogger of EmployerReport.com, as well as Founder & CEO of Kulture, LLC -- a nationally known labor and employee relations consulting firm assisting employers with employee and labor issues.
For more information, go to http://www.employerreport.com or http://www.uskulture.com.
SOURCE EmployerReport.com
