A new study released February 3rd, The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act, by University of Chicago Professor Richard Epstein, thoroughly debunks claims made by supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
The study details and offers extensive analysis of the countless risks to job creation, small businesses and overall economic growth that would result from this misguided legislation. Epstein concludes that passage of the Employee Free Choice Act would radically alter the balance of power between management and labor and create huge dislocations in established ways of doing business that will in turn lead to large losses in productivity.
Epstein also concludes that “the likely consequence of EFCA is that it will reduce income and employment across the board” and that “the level of unrest in labor relations will increase, and do so in a time when the economy is still likely to suffer from a general slowdown.”
Meanwhile, a new national survey from McLaughlin & Associates shows that there is widespread public opposition to the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, even among union members. According to the poll, 86 percent of voters feel that workplace votes on unionizing should remain private, and only eight percent believe that such votes should be public. 88 percent of union members polled believe that the process should be kept private.
For more information on the Epstein study, please visit
www.abc.org and click on Government Affairs.