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Michigan Workers in the Media

22 October 08

News radio station in Detroit publishes article on EFCA

West Michigan Works

“It’s conceivable under the proposed legislation that a business owner could leave a non-union workplace on Friday and come back to a union workplace Monday morning.”

WWJ, a news radio station broadcasting out of Detroit, published today an article that quotes Marc Freedman, the director of labor law policy at the US Chamber of Commerce, ‘Right now, it’s not very cost-effective for unions to organize small businesses, he said. But if this legislation passes, it will require so few resources on the part of the unions that “it’ll put those small businesses in the cross-hairs.”’ He continued, ‘So if a business has 25 workers, it would only take 13 signed cards to organize a union. It’s conceivable under the proposed legislation that a business owner could leave a non-union workplace on Friday and come back to a union workplace Monday morning.’

For the full article at the WWJ website click here.

 
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