SJR30: Joint Resolution Text

LRB-2606/1

SRM:wlj:ph

2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE

2009 Senate JOINT RESOLUTION 30

April 15, 2009 - Introduced by Senators Grothman, Olsen, Darling, S. Fitzgerald and Schultz, cosponsored by Representatives Townsend, Strachota, Brooks, LeMahieu, Nass, Vukmir, Bies, Gottlieb and Vos. Referred to Committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs.

SJR30,1,1 Relating to: memorializing Congress to not enact the Employee Free Choice Act.

SJR30,1,4 Whereas, under the National Labor Relations Act, workers are granted the right to join or form a labor union and to bargain collectively over wages, hours, and working conditions; and

SJR30,1,7 Whereas, a union is already required to secure the support of the majority of employees through a free and fair election before the union may be acknowledged as the employees' representative; and

SJR30,1,10 Whereas, currently, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administers elections, which utilize private ballots. An independent federal agency agent observes elections to ensure no parties unfairly influence how individuals vote; and

SJR30,1,12 Whereas, according to the NLRB, these elections yield union support 55 percent of the time; and

SJR30,1,15 Whereas, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) threatens to undermine the secret ballot provision and effectively replace it with a "card check system"; and

SJR30,2,2 Whereas, to maintain fair, representative union elections, Congress should oppose EFCA legislation; now, therefore, be it

SJR30,2,5 Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the Wisconsin legislature denounces the EFCA and asks that Congress ignore 2007 Wisconsin Senate Resolution 7; and, be it further

SJR30,2,7 Resolved, That the legislature urges Congress to not pass the EFCA and to oppose any effort to eliminate a worker's right to a private ballot.

SJR30,2,8 (End)