Georgia Pacific Worse than Rotten

The best example I can think of as to why we need the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is a rotten company located in Wheatfield, Indiana.

The Georgia Pacific Gypsum Company in Wheatfield, Indiana has been lollygagging and dragging its feet for over a year now as their workers try to negotiate a first contract with this lousy company.

The company isn’t fooling anyone. A fair contract can be negotiated in a couple of days when the company involved is honest and on the up and up.

One part of the EFCA provides for first-contract mediation and arbitration. It Provides that if an employer and a union are engaged in bargaining for their first contract and are unable to reach agreement within 90 days, either party may refer the dispute to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) for mediation. If the FMCS is unable to bring the parties to agreement after 30 days of mediation, the dispute will be referred to arbitration, and the results of the arbitration shall be binding on the parties for two years. Time limits may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties.

This arrangement would prevent anti-union companies like Georgia Pacific from bad faith bargaining. Shame on Georgia Pacific.

By the way…..Barack Obama supports the Employee Free Choice Act and would sign it into law.