Free Choice? —Polischuk

If passed, the law would have a major impact on the private sector. That is why the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) invited Thomas Smith of the law firm Jackson Lewis LLP (www.jacksonlewis.com) to make a presentation on the topic at its recent annual meeting.

Two key aspects of EFCA include the potential for replacing the current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) supervised secret ballot election process with a card-signing process in which a majority of employees signing an authorization card would result in union certification; and, after 120 days of unsuccessful bargaining, mandatory arbitration that would impose a two-year contract.