Wisconsin’s Eau Claire County lost 800 full-time jobs and a $50 million investment that was to be rolled out over the next five years because of the Democrat’s Card Check bill. And it wasn’t just a single county in Wisconsin that lost this multi-million dollar development. It was the whole U.S.A. that lost this project.
Thank you Barack Obama. Some help with economic “stimulus” and jobs you are.
Announcing this loss, Brian Doudna, executive director of the Eau Claire Area Economic Development Corp., said that the project was abandoned because the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would make the project unprofitable and unmanageable. Because the legislation would force binding arbitration on the corporation, eliminate the secret ballot and strangle the right of business owners to speak to employees about unions, it was determined that conditions would be too costly and unstable to go ahead.
Doudna also said that because of the EFCA, the project would not be built anywhere in the U.S.
“While debating topics and issues are an important part of the U.S. political process, our ability to grow, retain and recruit jobs to our marketplace is now being impacted,” he said.
“Proposed federal and state legislation, as shown by this company’s decision, can impact location decisions and limit the private sector’s ability to create quality jobs for Eau Claire area residents. This is especially disappointing given the condition of our current national, regional and local economies.”
This is a perfect example of the negative effect that the EFCA will have on the entire U.S. economy. Companies won’t be able to plan without expecting the government to swoop in at any given time to force all parties into a union, employees won’t be free to make an informed choice about organizing, employers will be forbidden to even have an open discussion with employees over their options and costs will soar as the exorbitant costs of unions is forced upon businesses everywhere.
In such an atmosphere, why would any company put themselves at such risk to develop new opportunities in the U.S.? It is so much easier to just go to some foreign country where business and economic development is welcomed with open arms than to lose money, find no partnership with workers and face a government hostile to economic opportunities.
This is the atmosphere that Barack Obama wants to foster in the U.S. with his support of the EFCA. He wants a hostile climate, one where business is not viewed as a partner in the American economy, but as an enemy to the people.
You need to urge your representatives in Congress to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act so that innovation, expansion, and opportunity can remain a key aspect of a strong America.
Steve Maley
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Dan McLaughlin
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Who, What, When, Where, Why
spinoneone Sunday, March 29th at 7:59AM EST (link)O.K., this is good, but we need to know at the very least the nationality of the private company involved. I understand not naming it, although I would hope you could do so. This must be more or less public knowledge in Eau Claire.
Why would any company put themselves at such risk to develop new opportunities in the U.S.?
izoneguy (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 8:52AM EST (link)This guy calls it: Economic Blackmail ~ EFCA…We Need it Now !
Read this perspective and you see how hard it is to get the left to reason.
http://wwwsecondchance.blogspot.com/2009/03/economic-blackmail-efcawe-need-it-now.html
In another post he writes:
The Employee Free Choice Act is about protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to bargain with their employers for a better life and to join a union without corporate interference and harassment.
And then this blogger:
“Economic Terrorism”
http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/26/economic-terrorism/
Which the AARP picked up:
“Big corporations using economic blackmail to thwart Employee Free Choice Act”
http://www.aarp.org/community/groups/displayTopic.bt?pageNum=1&groupId=1472&topicId=1677991
And this little tidbit:
http://www.unions.org/home/union-blog/
“We have a crisis in wage theft, and the Department of Labor has not been aggressive enough in recent years,” said Kim Bobo, executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a group that advocates for low-wage workers. “The new secretary of labor says she’s the new sheriff in town, but I’m concerned she’s facing the wild, wild West of wage theft.”
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said she took the report’s findings seriously.
“I am committed to ensuring that every worker is paid at least the minimum wage,” Ms. Solis said, “that those who work overtime are properly compensated, that child labor laws are strictly enforced and that every worker is provided a safe and healthful environment.”
Ms. Solis said the Wage and Hour Division planned to increase its staff by a third by hiring 250 investigators — 100 of them as part of the federal stimulus package — “to refocus the agency on these enforcement responsibilities” and “ensure that contractors on stimulus projects are in compliance with the applicable laws.”
Ms. Solis said the hirings would “reinvigorate the work of this important agency.”
Hmmmmm – Looks like the assault on business is coming from
multiple fronts. so again we ask the question:
Why would any company put themselves at such risk to develop new opportunities in the U.S.? And why would a company stay in the U.S. to keep themselves at risk to develop new opportunities for worker’s in the U.S.?
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
I took the time to read the articles referenced.
papalee Sunday, March 29th at 11:37AM EST (link)They seemed to repeat over and over again the same words without anything resembling critical thought. They seem to believe that companies and individuals are required to risk their money not to create a profitable business but to employ workers and pay the extra cost of unions without any regard as to whether that would accomplish their objectives, i.e., a profitable return on investment.
When people are this ignorant of how a real economy works, there is nothing that can be said that will ever get through to them. They believe they have the right to well paying jobs served up on a silver platter where they currently live without any thought of what they have to offer, if anything, in return. No wonder Obama was elected and we are in economic trouble.
They believe they have the right to well paying jobs served up on a silver platter where they currently live without any thought of what they have to offer, if anything, in return
izoneguy (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 12:12PM EST (link)And that belief is wrong. Those folks will find out that unemployment benefits will not cover many bills for long. When they have an entitlement mentality it is hard for them to open their minds. Obama’s policies, government policies & union policies will run off what business’s are are left in America. Of course many of us are stuck and we don’t have the resources to move offshore. The worst is yet to come,
don’t let minor upticks in the market get you excited.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
"…without any thought of what they have to offer, if anything, in return."
pa Sunday, March 29th at 1:52PM EST (link)Exactly. This is the entire foundation of their thought. Remember the woman who made such a fuss protesting the Augusta golf club that did not admit women? She complained that members were sharing important information that helped them make more money or advance in some way, and she thought women should be allowed in so they could enjoy the same advantages. This professional complainer never once said anything about what information and benefits she would bring to the other members if admitted. In other words, pearls of wisdom, stock tips, sneaky business tricks, or other magical whatsit would all freely fall into her lap if only she and other women were allowed to join this golf club. Not one word about whether she would pull her weight by providing valuable info in return to other members. No understanding of quid pro quo: An exchange of one thing for another, by mutual agreement. She fancied a one-way process, by which the benefits and skills produced by other people’s investments in money and knowledge would become hers to enjoy without sacifice, expense, experience, or learning.
pa
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skorrent1 (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 1:03PM EST (link)Surrounding the current “economic crisis” has been based on the assumption that the function of business is to create and maintain “jobs.” The measure that resonates throughout the MSM is the number of “jobs” lost, or saved, or created, by various actions. Any thought that a business should provide products or services of benefit to customers is completely ignored. The fact that a business is only able to do this if it can make a profit is not only ignored, but also ridiculed.
If the government institutes a policy that eliminates the incentive for businesses to “create jobs”, then whom does that leave as the employer of last resort? If you said “The government!” go to the head of the class. It matters not whether the employees produce anything of value or not. They have “jobs”, that’s what matters! No one can review the “stimulus bill” without being overwhelmed by this ideology, writ large.
Can you spell “Socialism”?
Should it be said...
paulincolo (Diary) Sunday, March 29th at 1:14PM EST (link)Hey, Wisconsin, hows that one party rule working for you?
(Same goes to all of the US) You likin’ the Dem controlled legis and exec branches?