thetruthaboutefca.com | The Truth About The Employee Free Choice Act & Card Check

As our sister site, The Truth About PLAs.com noted, Associated Builders and Contractors member Stephen Worth went up to Capitol Hill yesterday to share his concerns about special-interest agendas that could affect the workplace for ABC’s 25,000 member companies and the rest of America’s free enterprise system.

The Employee Free Choice Act was, of course, a key concern. Worth said:

I feel that no true discussion on union favoritism would be complete without covering the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Under EFCA, workers essentially would be stripped of their right to vote in a federally supervised secret ballot election when deciding whether to join a union. Instead of a private election, workers would be forced to use a biased and inferior system known as “card check.” This system would make a worker’s decision public to his/her employer, the union and fellow employees.

There is more to the EFCA than just the elimination of private ballots. The legislation also would
permit a government arbitrator to impose a two-year contract on employers and employees –
even if neither party consents to the contract terms. In doing so, EFCA would unwisely place the fate of a company and its employees in the hands of a federal bureaucrat, who may lack business experience and know little to nothing about the company, its business operations and the industry in which it operates.

Why, when the United States spends enormous resources abroad to foster free and private elections around the world, would some in Congress believe it a good idea to strip that right away from American workers? Because labor unions view this legislation as their main means to increase membership and, thus, add union dues into the diminishing union coffers.

Worth is president and CEO of Worth and Company, Inc., Pipersville, PA.

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