The National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. has joined a host of organizations and endorsed the Employee Free Choice Act.
From the blog of union organizer Ron Moore:
The list of grassroots groups endorsing the Employee Free Choice Act continues to grow as their members mobilize to support a bill that would remove obstacles to the right to organize. Unlike corporate front groups, grassroots organizations are comprised of actual members who choose to be involved in their communities.
The Employee Free Choice Act allows workers to negotiate with their employer after a majority approve through a simple card check process. Only after an agreement is reached and approved by a majority in a secret ballot election do the workers have a union.
Groups are mobilizing to remind Congress that it’s time to make the change we can believe in the change we can see by passing this bill. Even opponents admit that at least one million workers in the service industries would organize a union at their workplace given unencumbered access to the right to organize. A new survey shows that the tactics employed by opponents of the EFCA are backfiring as a substantial majority of American support passage of the Act.
Baptist blogger and peace activist Michael Westmoreland-White wrote about the Employee Free Choice Act last week in a blog post titled Why We Should Support The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Check that over at Levellers.
For more on the EFCA, click here.
The National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. (not to be confused with National Baptist Convention USA, Inc.) is a 3.5 million member historically African-American Baptist denomination that formed in 1915 as a result of a schism with NBC USA.
The current president of the National Baptist Convention of America is Rev. Stephen Thurston. Thurston is the senior pastor of New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch on the South Side of Chicago. Thurston is a leader in the New Baptist Covenant movement. His son, Stephen J. Thurston II, serves as co-pastor of New Covenant. Thurston II is a graduate of Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology.
As a side note, New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church was recently in the national news. It was from the pulpit of New Covenant that the soon-to-be junior Senator of Illinois Roland Burris proclaimed that the United States Senate “can’t deny what the Lord has ordained.” The senior Thurston recently penned an op-ed published in the Chicago Tribune titled “Burris is the Perfect Senate Candidate.”
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interestingly one of the criticisms of this legislation concerns perceived influence tactics employees may receive by pro-union, employee leaders. will such come to bear? likely, but in what organization does influence tactics not exist? do not pro-management, anti-union advocates perceive and activate influence tactics in executive meetings? had not socialization processes and power tactics been operative and embraced, one would not likely be in the boardroom in the first place. that socialization effects and power tactics (neither of which are inherently unethical) may be operative is given, but why is it an issue at one level of the organization but is not at another? from ape studies we learn that hierarchy appears to be a default position for social organization, but it is not the only viable position for effective social functioning. democratic, participative processes among apes work well, too, but they require more effort to maintain, and they must continually check the power of those that seek to overcome it in favor of hierarchical processes that tend to disproportionately benefit leaders. are we any different in this regard?
Right. The opposition is projecting. Management coerces employees (illegally) to vote against unions all the time. This would correct that. IF, in time, EFCA leads to union abuses, we can fight that, too. But to keep the management abuses because we fear the solution, is absurd. Especially since EFCA does NOT abolish the choice to have a secret ballot election–despite the claims of the Chambers of Commerce and other opponents.