Thursday, December 24, 2009

Anti-EFCA study challenged

Liberal organization the Institute for Southern Studies rates Layne-Farrar's EFCA impact study seriously flawed. This is not the first criticism of the Layne-Farrar report. The latest edition of Just Labour, a research publication sponsored by Canada's York University's Center for Research on Work and Society, is devoted to the Canadian experience with both card check recognition and mandatory elections to determine representation. There is a lot to digest here, and it has a decidedly pro-labor tilt, but brings to the debate substantial comparative data that challenges assumptions previously made by EFCA opponents.