Oppose Employee ‘Free Choice’ Act
Isn’t it always the way? Progressive mischief is often done by naming bills for the complete opposite of what they really mean. When Jeanne Shaheen was confronted by the question of whether she supported this bill, many times she avoided the question and instead, she stated that the workers have a right to organize.
That however, did NOT answer the question as that was NOT what the bill was about. Defeat of this bill does NOT prevent someone from joining a union if they wish.
Do You Know What the ‘Employee Free Choice’ Act REALLY Is?
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Congressman Paul Hodes and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter are all co-sponsors of a bill that would harm New Hampshire families by forcing workers into unions they do not want, forcing them to pay union dues involuntarily and enabling a federal bureaucrat into a local business to force employment terms on both them and their employees.
That’s right. According to the Workforce Fairness Institute, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) takes away a worker’s fundamental right to a private ballot in union organizing elections. Big union bosses would bypass free and fair union elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board for a “card check” system where they could intimidate and coerce workers to sign cards authorizing the formation of a union. EFCA would also dramatically change the nature of the American workplace, inserting Washington bureaucrats into the most basic decisions about your job or your business. If an employer and a union don’t reach a contract agreement within 90 days, a Federal “arbitrator” can step in to unilaterally impose contract terms — without a full vote of the workforce that is currently required in union contract negotiations. EFCA not only ends automatic elections on whether to form a union, but it drastically undermines the right to vote on contracts too.
Please write to your Legislators and tell them you want them to OPPOSE this horrendous bill because it prevents a vote on whether to have a union and then, takes away the right of a private vote on whether you want to join the union.
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