If you believe every worker deserves the opportunity to cast a private vote and to receive balanced information from both the union and his or her employer ...
If you believe a secret ballot election is the most effective way to give every worker a right to be heard, and to determine the true wishes of the majority of workers ...
If you believe a secret ballot vote on the matter of union representation is the best protection against intimidation and pressure from union representatives, company officials and fellow workers ...
If you believe workers and their employers – instead of a government-imposed arbitrators – should determine your wages, benefits and work rules ...
... then you should be concerned about the potential impact of EFCA becoming the law of the land.
Questions to ask yourself
Current law provides for government-supervised, secret-ballot elections in which all affected workers have the opportunity to vote in private. Card check would allow unions to sidestep that time-honored process and replace it with a public card-signing process that may involve only a portion of eligible workers.
Ask yourself, "Which of those two options is more likely to ..."
- Ensure that workers receive information from both unions and employers explaining the pros and cons of union representation?
- Respect the intelligence of workers to make up their own minds about what is best for them and their families?
- Allow workers to vote their own personal preference in private without fear of pressure or intimidation?
- Yield results that truly reflect the wishes of individual workers?