Costco, others look for EFCA compromise

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Saturday March 21, 2009 · 3:37 PM PDT

2009/03/21 · 15:37

Companies are willing to compromise on EFCA, but is a 70 percent requirement instead of 50 percent a good deal for workers?

The Wall Street Journal reports today that Costco Wholesale Corp., Starbucks Corp. and Whole Foods Market Inc. are interested in compromising with unions to support a modified version of the Employee Free Choice Act.

"Costco Wholesale Corp., Starbucks Corp. and Whole Foods Market Inc. are supporting the alternative proposal, according to someone familiar with the effort. Ray Krupin, a management labor lawyer in Washington said the most likely compromise would allow employees to unionize if 70% of them sign union-authorization cards, as opposed to 50% as currently proposed in the Employee Free Choice Act."

Stewart Acuff, an assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, says "we expect to pass the bill the way it is now" in a response.

"Labor unions also expressed opposition to the Starbucks-led effort to find an alternative. 'What we have consistently heard from the business community is that there is no compromise.'"

It will be very interesting to see whether the number changes to get the bill passed. In other news, WSJ writer Seth Michaels clears up the notion about the EFCA and "secret ballots" being eliminated.

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