| Keep King's Dream Alive |
In a video message to supporters, Obama gives his campaign organization a name -- "Organizing for America" -- part of the ongoing effort to keep up the grassroots movement started during his presidential campaign once he's formally installed in the White House.
Organizing For America begins with the passing of the Employee Free Choice Act.
The Employee Free Choice Act is nothing new. It only reestablishes the Joy Silk Doctrine of 1949
History
In 1949, the NLRB's Joy Silk Doctrine established that "an employer could lawfully refuse to bargain with a union claiming representative status through possession of authorization cards only if he had a 'good faith doubt' as to the union's majority status.This policy was changed in 1966 with the ruling in Aaron Brothers, where "the Board made it clear that it had shifted the burden to the General Counsel to show bad faith and that an employer 'will not be held to have violated his bargaining obligation... simply because he refuses to rely upon cards. 'If passed, the proposed Employee Free Choice Act would return the NLRB policy to the Joy Silk Doctrine and allow employer challenges to card check elections only when illegal coercion or fraud is charged.
In 1969, Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the majority opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the use of card check. Warren stated, "Almost from the inception of the Act, then, it was recognized that a union did not have to be certified as the winner of a Board election to invoke a bargaining obligation; it could establish majority status by other means... by showing convincing support, for instance, by a union-called strike or strike vote, or, as here, by possession of cards signed by a majority of the employees authorizing the union to represent them for collective bargaining purposes." The Supreme Court has consistently ruled in favor of card check, and Warren cited prior affirmations in NLRB v. Bradford Dyeing Assn., (1940); Franks Bros. Co. v. NLRB,[(1944); United Mine Workers v. Arkansas Flooring Co., (1956).
We're all about change, but change of a positive nature. We can celebrate our victories, but we can't forget that the battle goes on. Dr. King died to make this a better world for all of us and we can't let that dream die.
For More Information on EFCA please visit these websites
http://www.employeefreechoiceactnow.org
http://efcanow.blogspot.com/
