The EFCA ‘Compromise’

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“Every worker in America has the right to a secret ballot vote in union-organizing elections, free from intimidation or recrimination,” said Katie Packer, executive director of the Workforce Fairness Institute. “Calling a proposal which exposes 70 percent of employees to intimidation instead of 50 percent a ‘compromise’ is beyond absurd.”

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Others said the proposed deal was not a true compromise. Instead, they said the companies were trying to appease powerful labor unions by helping to get the bill passed by Congress.

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“These companies should be standing up for the basic rights of their employees instead of kowtowing to the union bosses — or cutting backroom deals trying to protect their narrow interests,” said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee. “One thing that is for sure: should this scheme lead to passage of a bill that forces more workers into monopoly unions, these companies’ blatant disregard for their own consumers won’t soon be forgotten.”

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In truth, it gives the unions little that they don’t already have, and it strips them of two of their cherished prizes. It also gives politicians on Capitol Hill a way to throw a bone to union rank and file without offering a complete game-changer.