"'Card Check': A Jobs-Killing Ruse"
Posted by: Staff in Card Check on
Mar 19, 2009
The Pittsburgh-Tribune Review writes about the "jobs-killing" effects of card check:
In a robust economy, the union-coddling Employee Free Choice Act would drain job creation. In a severely recessed economy, it would be a death knell.
Legislation that would make it vastly easier for unions to organize -- and essentially eliminate secret ballots in the process -- could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to an analysis by economist Dr. Anne Layne-Farrar. Her work has appeared in the Antitrust Law Journal and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Based on her analysis, unionizing 1.5 million jobs in one year under EFCA -- a goal, incidentally, cited by Andy Stern, head of the Service Employees International Union -- would lead to a reduction of 600,000 jobs by the following year.
Such a toll would be "devastating in today's economic environment," says Philip A. Miscimarra, a lawyer with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and counsel to the Alliance to Save Main Street Jobs.
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