Government Affairs
The mission of the Government Affairs Department of the Sample City Chamber of Commerce is to provide a comprehensive, non-partisan state and local political program to promote and protect a strong local economy in Sample County. The Sample City Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Department brings together all sectors of the business community to create one voice for business. Learn how the Chamber's Government Affairs department improves your bottom line.
The Government Affairs Department handles policy issues while business owners concentrate on running their companies. Government Affairs also works to elect the candidates who understand the best interests of business owners and their employees through elections & endorsements, contributions and grassroots campaign support.
Current Issues:
Don’t Allow Unions to Take Away the Privacy and Voice of Your Employees: Contact Indiana Senators Immediately!
This bill will make union organizing easier and cheaper than ever before, allowing unions to continue targeting even the smallest of businesses.
Unions are one step closer to legalizing coercion and public intimidation to become the bargaining representative for your employees.
If passed, this bill will completely change the rules that govern unionization and create a new system that will give unions the upper-hand at the expense of employee privacy and free choice.
Think organizing won’t happen in your small business? Of the 2,649 union representation elections conducted in 2005, more than 20 percent involved bargaining units of fewer than 10 employees and a full 70 percent involved bargaining units of fewer than 50 employees.
This bill will make union organizing easier and cheaper than ever before, allowing unions to continue targeting even the smallest of businesses.
Under the act, unions feeling the decline in their memberships will replace secret ballot elections overseen by the National Labor Relations Board with a public majority sign-up system the unions oversee themselves, eliminating all sense of privacy and fairness in the voting process. The new system would also be open-ended in terms of time. This all but eliminates a union’s chances of losing!
The Employee Free Choice Act will
Replace secret ballot elections for union representation with a public card-signing system, making your employees vulnerable to intimidation, public pressure and harassment tactics. Allow for an open-ended system in terms of time, giving unions as long as they need to collect signatures instead of resolving the issue on a specific date with an election. Impose fines up to $20,000 against employers who make “unilateral changes” such as wage increases during a union’s campaign no matter how lengthy the process. Require a secret ballot election should a workplace choose to decertify the union.
On March 29, the Senate introduced the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041), a bill sponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). This bill, also known as the Check Card bill, was approved by the House of Representatives as H.R. 800 on March 1 by a margin of 241-185.
Contact Indiana Senators immediately to urge them to vote no on The Employee Free Choice Act. Encourage your employees to do the same! Don’t allow Congress to take away your employees’ right to a fair and private vote.
