The Labor Relations Institute is offering a $10,000 dollar reward to the first Federal arbitrator who can document their having settled a first contract within 90 days. LRI's website. What they're actually pointing out is that after the 90 day deadline has passed, which it most likely will, Federal arbitrators will be basically dictating terms.
"The Employee Free Choice Act puts a 90-day limit on the bargaining process before the employer and union members are effectively removed from the negotiation. In our experience, this timeline is simply unrealistic," said Phillip B. Wilson, president and general counsel for LRI, the nation's leading union avoidance and positive employee-relations consultants.
Is this the change we want for America?
"Unfortunately, it seems clear that the Employee Free Choice Act is likely to pass, and while we put our faith in the system that all of the fine points of the legislation will be discussed at length and the ramifications clearly considered, our message to business owners is to start educating themselves on the issues now, because if it passes the environment in which they do business will be radically different," Wilson said.
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