
Capitol Journal – August 18, 2023
BCA In The News Capitol Journal – August 18, 2023 from the Business Council of Alabama Governmental Affairs Conference at Point Clear, Alabama. Todd sits down with Lt. Governor Will
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After two full years of economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, employers throughout the country continue to face headwinds. In some cases, those headwinds are caused by a federal government that should be helping employers, not hindering them.
Take, for example, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a little-known agency that helps employees decide whether they want to have a labor union represent them in the workplace. The process for that can be rather complicated, but when you boil it down, employees usually hold a secret ballot election to decide. If a majority of employees vote in favor of the union, it becomes their representative with the employer, and if a majority vote against the union, it does not.
That’s the way it’s supposed to work, at least.
It is not much of a secret that the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) has been attempting to be the collective bargaining representative of Amazon’s Bessemer, Ala., employees, but the problem for the RWSDU is the fact that the employees at that facility already had an election last April and voted against having the union represent them. In fact, it wasn’t even close: the RWDSU lost by a vote of 738 votes for the union versus 1,798 votes against it.
BCA In The News Capitol Journal – August 18, 2023 from the Business Council of Alabama Governmental Affairs Conference at Point Clear, Alabama. Todd sits down with Lt. Governor Will
BCA In The News Local and national media outlets have recently given much attention to a new “study” by the CNBC network that used questionable methodology and cherrypicked categories to
BCA In The News Helena Duncan had spent 35 years in the financial industry, and she was ready for a change. Her youngest son had gone off to college, and