Do We Need Union-only Card Check?

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 by Admin

Organized labor is trying to get the secret-ballot-killing (effectively!) Employee Free Choice Act passed. When critics warn that getting rid of the protections of the secret ballot would open employees up to coercion, union bosses say: Who, us??? No way!

Well, it turns out there’s plenty of union-encouraged intimidation in the current process, let alone a future bereft of current protections:

Today is the first day of a highly contested union election for 10,000 homecare workers in Fresno County who are trying to leave the Washington, D.C.-based SEIU, a union that has been condemned by the AFL-CIO for using violence in inter-union conflicts. The stakes have never been higher for SEIU officials, who are desperately trying to stop a movement of nearly 100,000 healthcare workers in California who are organizing to quit SEIU and join the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW).

Current and former SEIU organizers have reported SEIU

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2 Responses to “Do We Need Union-only Card Check?”

  1. June 3rd, 2009 at 12:18 am

    Do We Need Union-only Card Check? - THE UNION LABEL says:

    [...] note from the folks over at thetruthaboutefca.com and they are hitting a subject we’ve been following here for some time: the SEIU’s [...]

  2. June 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 am

    LaborUnionReport.com says:

    If workers could switch unions merely by signing card, the SEIU would be finished in California.

    As it stands, there are now active deauthorization campaigns among groups of SEIU-represented workers in Cal., which would remove the SEIU’s ability to forcibly collect dues under the threat of termination.