Starbucks, Costco and Whole Foods offer Union Bill alternative

Starbucks, Costco and Whole Foods offer Union Bill alternative
Tags: Policy / Legislation
March 22, 2009

Bloomberg News: Starbucks Corp., Costco Wholesale Corp. and Whole Foods Market Inc. offered an alternative to the union-backed "card-check" legislation that U.S. business groups are spending millions of dollars to defeat. The legislation, known as the Employee Free Choice Act, would let employees form a union once a majority signed cards requesting one. Currently, companies have the right to require a secret-ballot election to unionize.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Home Depot Inc. and Burger King Holdings Inc. also are among companies that oppose the card-check bill, as does billionaire investor Warren Buffett, an Obama supporter and adviser.

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