TLMI Position Statement on EFCA

The TLMI opposes the Employee Free Choice Act because:
1. Under Card Check, a union could simply collect authorization cards signed by a majority of employees in a bargaining unit to be recognized as the representative of all the employees in that unit. This process would eliminate the secret ballot election, where employees can privately express preferences and prevent anyone, including co-workers, union organizers or company officials, from finding out how they voted. Card Check is not “free choice”—choices made without privacy would make workers more vulnerable to coercion and intimidation. To take away the prized American value of secret ballots in order to skew the results in favor of one side would be a huge mistake.