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BRAC Participates in U.S. Chamber Event Focused on Defeating Card-Check Legislation
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For more information, contact Heather G. Hewitt
at 225-381-7132 or heather@brac.org
BRAC Participates in U.S. Chamber Event
Focused on Defeating Card-Check Legislation
Focused on Defeating Card-Check Legislation
BATON ROUGE, La. (March 1, 2010) – The Baton Rouge Area Chamber (BRAC) announced today that it will be participating in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event designed to coordinate nationwide efforts to defeat the proposed card-check legislation, also known as the Employee Free Choice Act. Dubbed the Workforce Freedom Initiative Airlift, the U.S. chamber gathering is bringing together chambers and businesses from around the country for discussions on the dangers of the proposed legislation and engagement of business delegations with their congressmen and senators.
“This legislation would inhibit economic development should it become law,” said Adam Knapp, BRAC’s President and CEO. “We are participating because BRAC remains concerned that congress could take up card-check legislation in 2010 and do harm to the private sector during its recovery from the national recession. Card-check’s removal of secret ballot voting would create an atmosphere that would foster intimidation, coercion, and high-pressure tactics by labor unions, as well as harm the productivity of businesses.”
BRAC’s Board of Directors adopted a resolution opposing card-check in January 2009. More information about the Employee Free Choice Act can be found online at www.uschamber.com/issues/index/labor/cardchecksecrbal.htm.
Representing the organization at the event will be BRAC’s Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs, Erin Monroe Wesley.
About the Baton Rouge Area Chamber
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber leads economic development in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area. Serving as the voice of the business community, BRAC’s membership includes more than 1,500 organizations whose employees represent over a third of the Capital Region workforce.
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