GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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HOUSE RESOLUTION 831

Sponsors:

Representatives Crawford, Brubaker, Howard (Primary Sponsors);  Allred, Avila, Barnhart, Blackwell, Blackwood, Blust, Boles, Braxton, Brisson, Brown, Burr, Burris‑Floyd, Cleveland, Cole, Current, Daughtry, Dockham, Dollar, Folwell, Frye, Gillespie, Grady, Guice, Gulley, Hill, Hilton, Holloway, Hurley, Johnson, Justice, Justus, Killian, Langdon, Lewis, McComas, McCormick, McElraft, McGee, Mills, Moore, Neumann, Randleman, Rhyne, Sager, Samuelson, Setzer, Spear, Stam, Starnes, Steen, Stevens, Stewart, Stiller, Tarleton, Tillis, Tucker, R. Warren, West, Wiley, Williams, and Yongue.

Referred to:

Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House, if favorable, Judiciary II.

March 30, 2009

A HOUSE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING its opposition to the enactment of the "Employee Free Choice Act" or similar legislation.

Whereas, recent actions by special labor interests have been trying to force through Congress a new law that could change the American workplace and strip workers of the sacred right to a secret ballot in union organization; and

Whereas, current law allows companies to petition for a federally supervised secret ballot election on whether to have a union in their workplace allowing employers and union workers to make their case to employees; and

Whereas, under the current system the workers could cast their ballots for or against a union in private; and

Whereas, under the "Employee Free Choice Act," union bosses want to get rid of the secret ballot and instead install a union if a majority of workers can be pressured into signing authorization cards; and

Whereas, if pressured into signing authorization cards with no secret ballot to protect them the employees can be required to have dues extracted from their paychecks; and

Whereas, business owners would be kept intentionally uninformed of union organizing drives and would have severe restrictions and huge new penalties imposed if they chose to speak out regarding these efforts; and

Whereas, if union organizers convince a majority of employees to sign cards, business owners have 120 days to agree to a contract (90 days plus 30 days mediation); and

Whereas, if an agreement is not reached, a business owner enters binding arbitration where a federal arbiter will dictate the terms of the new labor contract; and

Whereas, a coalition of more than 300 business and free enterprise organizations oppose the "card check" process; and

Whereas, the passage of this legislation would prove detrimental to the overall integrity of the American workplace; Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

SECTION 1.  The North Carolina House of Representatives expresses its opposition to any effort to enact the "Employee Free Choice Act" or any similar act aiming to remove the secret ballot from the union organizing process.

SECTION 2.  The Principal Clerk shall transmit a certified copy of this resolution to each member of the North Carolina congressional delegation.

SECTION 3.  This resolution is effective upon adoption.