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Employee Free Choice Act would have saved Circuit City
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In a tragic object lesson for businesses that refuse to respect their employees, Circuit City announced that it will shut down its remaining 567 U.S. stores at the cost of 34,000 jobs after failing to sell the business. The move comes less than two years after the retailer fired 3,400 of its highest-paid hourly workers hiring replacements willing to work for less, following the Wal-Mart business model. If the company had formed a partnership with its workers through collective bargaining a compromise could have been reached allowing the experienced workers to stay and saving the company.
The current corporate culture resists a cooperative relationship with its workers, choosing instead a top down approach putting profits over people. This is encouraged by unionbusters who counsel managers to avoid negotiating with their employees at any cost.
Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act can prevent this kind of economic loss by allowing employees to negotiate with their employers after a simple card check procedure. Only after an agreement is reached and approved by a majority in a secret ballot election do the workers have a union. Workers are mobilizing to demand that Congress pass this vital economic stimulus bill.
It is the spirit of the collective bargaining process that binds workers and management together as partners, both seeking to build a successful enterprise. Unfortunately for the workers at Circuit City, the union busters have created a destructive business climate and the Employee Free Choice Act will not pass in time to save their jobs and their business.
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