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The Employee Free Choice Act could increase unionization rates but cost the American economy 4.5 million jobs, and will be particularly costly to small businesses.

The Obama administration's efforts to increase unionization are harmful to the nation's employment outlook, as there are other methods available to raise wages and expand employment opportunities at a fraction of the cost of higher unionization.

To create private-sector jobs and raise wages for those now working, we must make America a magnet for investment from abroad. A trade agenda to promote exports is one piece of competing in a global economy, but without an aggressive campaign to draw in foreign investors’ resources, the United States will miss key employment and economic growth opportunities.

Obama's partiality to unions is apparently rooted in a conviction that we would be better off if every employee were represented by a union.The marketplace says otherwise.

A growing body of work--both theoretical and empirical--has emphasized thatunionization may be better understood as a tax on capital rather than a tax on labor. Underthis "new" view, unionization unambiguously lowers investment. Using data on unioncertification elections, we estimate the impact of unionization on firms' investment behavior.

Public sector unions are not the same thing as private sector unions, and should not be able to collectively bargain.

By catering to unions, the Obama Democrats are seeking to take the United States back to a system that produced huge inefficiencies and rigidity in the private sector.