TLMI Position Statement on EFCA

Secret ballots are good for democracies; they should be good for union elections as well.

2. Card Check would allow a federal arbitrator to write the labor agreement defining every detail about how employees will work for two years if the parties have not reached agreement within 120 days—a very short time for negotiating first contracts. This provides an incentive for union negotiators to make sure the process lasts long enough to get into arbitration and destroys incentives to negotiate in good faith. It would also deprive employees of their opportunity to ratify their first contract—it would be imposed on all with no ability for either employers or employees to challenge it.