Katherine Stone on the U.S. Employee Free Choice Act

by David Doorey April 29, 2009

written by David Doorey April 29, 2009

Kathy Stone is one of the leading labor law scholars in the U.S. (She is visiting York this week, actually, at the Hannah Arendt conference this Thursday and Friday at Schulich). In this post, Professor Stone weighs in on the intense and heated debate ongoing in the U.S. about labour law reform in the form of the proposed Employee Free Choice Act. That is the legislation that would allow unions to be certified by collecting membership cards on behalf of a majority of workers rather than by winning a vote. Stone is supportive of the legislation. Others, mostly those that think unions and collective bargaining are evil, strongly oppose the legislation, including Richard Epstein of the law and economics school of thought.
If the U.S. moves to card-check, should we go back to the model in those jurisdictions that have moved away from it in recent years (including Ontario)?

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David Doorey

Professor Doorey is a Full Professor of Work Law and Labour Relations at York University. He is Academic Director of Osgoode Hall Law School’s executive LLM Program in Labour and Employment Law and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. Professor Doorey is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B., Ph.D), London School of Economics (LLM Labour Law), and the University of Toronto (B.A., M.I.R.).