The Employee Rights Act would reduce union exploitation of workers [View all]

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/4/richard-berman-employee-rights-act-in-congress-can/

By Richard Berman - - Sunday, January 4, 2015
While the resolution of Election Day was clear, the New Year’s resolutions of elected legislators are anything but. That’s not to say Americans haven’t been united in what they’re after — poll after poll shows an electorate desperate for real economic improvement. It’s just that members of Congress are divided on how to get there.

This year, there’s an easy place to start: improving employee rights.

Not all legislators agree on the best way to achieve this. One group, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and her acolytes, has called for a renewed focus on unionization. Yet economic evidence suggests that on average, unions are bad long-term bargains for employees. Economists find that unions tend to make businesses less competitive and less profitable, as their demands reduce the ability to hire, expand and invest.

Such findings haven’t stopped the activist National Labor Relations Board, which has made a series of dramatic changes to labor law in an attempt to stem the historic drop in private-sector unionization.

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