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Information about EFCA
EFCA Fact Sheet (printer friendly)
In 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” (EFCA), and the U.S. Senate considered identical legislation that would change the National Labor Relations Act by:
- Eliminating the rights of employees to an NLRB supervised secret ballot election about whether a union will represent them or not.
- Substituting a “card-check” process whereby unions can get cards signed at work, at an employee’s home or online
- Certifying a union if over 50% of workers sign card-checks, without a secret ballot election
- Denying employers’ rights to refuse unfavorable proposals during collective bargaining negotiations
This deceptively named proposal would:
- Overturn 70 years of precedent by taking away workers’ freedom of a government-supervised vote
- Eliminate workers’ secret ballots and replace them with card-checks
- Trample workers’ privacy by forcing them to publicly declare their support for or opposition to a union, and publicly sign a binding contract without knowing the consequences
- Expose workers to intimidation, deception and coercion
In fact, the National Labor Relations Board records and testimony before Congress are full of examples where the card check process has been challenged on the basis of union misrepresentation, forgery, fraud, peer pressure, threats of termination and deportation, and loss of 401 (k), health and other promised benefits.
