Union Card Check

Organized labor’s top priority is the astonishingly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), under which workers would lose the protection of secret ballots for union organizing elections.  They could be openly coerced into signing union cards—a process called “card check”—with the union automatically being certified once a majority or workers signed cards.  Less noticed, but possibly even worse for the U.S. economy, is that EFCA also takes the “bargaining” out of collective bargaining by empowering a federal bureaucrat to set contract terms for wages, benefits, and working conditions without so much as a vote of the workers.