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Floridians for a Democratic Workplace
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The cornerstone of American democracy is at stake. Big labor and their friends in Washington are trying to pull the rights of the private ballot from the working people and give it to the influential minority of the unions. Find out the facts on the misnamed “Employee Free Choice Act,” the rhetoric union organizers use to intimidate workers, and how this would effect the sanctity of workplace democracy.

Employee Free Choice Act Effectively Eliminates Secret Ballot
Statewide Poll Results: Card Check/Employee Free Choice
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Trends in Union Corporate Campaigns
Barack Obama's Letter to International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
 

Card Check Impact Study

Stanford University’s Hoover Institution has just released “The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act,” a 125 page study the builds a strong legal and economic case against Card Check. 

Full Report  |  Summary from our partners at the U.S. Chamber

 

The Employee Free Choice Act: Piercing the Rhetoric
A Briefing Book U.S. Chamber of Commerce Labor, Immigration & Employee Benefits Division

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The Employee Free Choice Act: Piercing the Rhetoric provides a comprehensive analysis of EFCA and how it would change existing labor laws. This review, prepared with the help of Martin F. Payson, Michael J. Lotito, and Harold R. Weinrich with the law firm Jackson Lewis LLP, critiques each of EFCA’s three provisions: Card check certification for union organizing, compulsory interest arbitration of first contracts, and increased penalties on employers.


Union Scoreboard

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Union Scoreboard of union activity will show you the Top 10 Unions. The Scoreboard also includes the Top 5 Regions and States among several other "union stats."


Flaws of Proposed Compromises on EFCA

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The Chamber’s position on any EFCA “compromise” is straightforward: any provisions that threaten to strip away the protection of a private ballot, interfere with an employer’s right to communicate with their workers, impose binding arbitration, or puts in place one-sided penalties are non-starters.