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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Starbucks, Costco and Whole Foods team up on labor bill | U.S. | Reuters
Basically what we have here is a proposed change to how unions are formed. Currently, employees have to get a majority vote. The new bill wants to see a majority of employees signing authorization cards instead. This ostensibly avoids a vote -- elections can often be affected by managerial bullying or coercion.
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Not instead. Card check is proposed as an additional procedure for bringing in unions.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
So we have three major corporations teaming up to present a "third way," which includes more union access to employees and a guarantee for secret ballots. But a concern of theirs was that unions would increase costs. So is this "third way" merely more union-busting?
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Well, union representation is better for the labor force, but worse for the corporate bottom line. The only problem I see with unions is the potential that unions would use their power in a way that actually hurts the viability and overall productivity of the company in favor of short-term gains for the workers. That's short-sighted, and probably does happen, but I suspect that it happens very rarely. OTOH, I don't got no proof of that.