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

Much talk of late has revolved around potential compromise on the Employee Free Choice Act. Associated Builders and Contractors, as well as the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and others, have strongly said there is no compromise on the bill. That said, one idea that has been floated is a “quickie election” to meet the (unfounded) concern that the current elections process is too long.

Today, the Heritage Foundation’s James Sherk released a new analysis explaining why a “quickie election” doesn’t actually help employees:

Snap elections would allow EFCA supporters to claim they preserve the secret ballot–the loss of which is EFCA’s most controversial component. Secret ballot elections exist to protect voters’ right to make an informed, private choice free of intimidation and pressure and with the time to sort out misinformation from facts. Snap elections preserve the secret ballot in name only, because they compromise the election process: While the direct process of casting a vote in snap elections still occurs in private, with only a few days to hear both sides of the issue, employees are deprived of the ability to make an informed choice when they vote.

With regard to their ability to make an independent, informed choice on union organization, snap elections are no better than card check.

Read the entire article – it’s important.

Tags: Protecting Secret Ballots, Quickie Elections