Posts Tagged ‘Electronic Voting’

“e-Voting” Could Be Too Similar To Card Check

One of the issues that has been raised as it’s been discovered that the National Labor Relations Board has issued a request for cost estimates of a system that would allow employees to use electronic ballots in union-representation elections is whether the process will open employees to intimidation in the same way as the card check provision of the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act.

Keith Bogardus of the The Hill, who has been tracking this issue for years, ran an article yesterday examining employer concerns. The piece highlighted a letter by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, of which Associated Builders and Contractors is a member:

Card Check Is Heavy, So Is it On To EFCA Lite?

LRIonline has found documents showing the National Labor Relations Board is looking into the workability of electronic voting system and concludes: “Make no mistake. If unions can