YMCA leaders from across the nation converged on the Nation's Capitol today as the YMCA of the USA's annual Advocacy Days kicked off. A pre-conference workshop was conducted on "Unions and the YMCA: Employee Free Choice Act"
Mike Aitken, Director of Governmental Affairs for the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Judy Barrett-Miller, Y-USA Government Affairs Specialist with experience with the Employee Free Choice Act in the state of Washington, and Rich Bland, Y-USA Director of Federal Relations offered a panel presentation on the subject.
Panelists forecasted that the Employee Free Choice Act would be introduced in Congress next week with bi-partisan support. This proposed legislation would amend the National Labor Relations Act ("Wagner Act") to change the procedures under which employees choose to join or not join a union. Aitken predicted an increase in union-friendly legislation as a major focus of organized labor, and increased collective bargaining activity, partly in response to the trend of declining union membership in recent years.
Pictured are: (L-R) Morag Vance, Chair, Public Policy Committee, Connecticut Alliance of YMCAs, and Philip J. Dwyer, President, Central Connecticut Coast YMCA and Vice Chair of the Public Policy Committee of the YMCA State Alliance.
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