EPI Meet Dana Corp.

The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal DC think tank, recently released a study outlining what they see as a lack of coercion in places of employment where management has agreed to recognize unions via card check. Of course EPI strongly backs the Employee Free Choice Act so it’s not too surprising they would publish a “study” that comes to this conclusion.

The evidence used by EPI is less than convincing as they look at four states- Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon- where public sector employees can unionize when a majority of employees sign a union authorization card. Of course comparing public sector employees with the private sector is apples and oranges. If someone doesn’t like UPS, they can use FedEx; if they don’t like Wal-Mart, they can go to Target…but where do you go if you don’t like your county water department? This lack of competition has allowed public sector unions to grow, while there numbers continue to diminish in the competitive private arena.

Further, EPI pays no attention to a story earlier this year where workers at Dana Corporation spoke with FoxNews about what happened when management signed a neutrality agreement. A number of workers talk about the tactics used by the UAW in order to get the signatures needed for the union to be recognized.



Conclusion: If you don’t want to find evidence of coercion, you probably won’t find any…