How are constructive employer/employee relationships built?
Card Check could undermine constructive employer-employee relationships where they exist and replace those relationships with a model that will encourage both sides to make extreme demands in the collective bargaining process, knowing that a compromise will be somewhere in between. Where good employer-union contracts exist today, they are the products of many months of negotiations, both sides having had a great deal of input to the process. Card Check’s provision for mandatory, binding federal arbitration after just 90 days of negotiation and 30 days of mediation between employer and union will have the practical effect of undermining the obligation to bargain in good faith that is the key to the collective bargaining process. Put another way, Card Check would reduce the incentives to negotiate in good faith. Where the employer-employee relations are not productive today, there may well be a place for unionization. The current union-organizing process supports this effectively. (Fact
