Protecting Private Ballots
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace supports efforts to protect federally supervised private ballots for working Americans as they decide whether to join a union.
First, some in Congress sought to pass the job-killing Employee Free Choice Act. But faced with bipartisan opposition to EFCA the current labor union strategy is to have their agenda enacted through executive action and regulation through the National Labor Relations Board. Knowing they can no longer hope to sneak “card check” through the legislature, Big Labor is pushing its agenda through small actions—but your Members of Congress need to hear that this is not acceptable.
Key Legislation
The Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act would rein in the rogue National Labor Relations Board and address its campaign to use executive action to implement key portions of the ill-fated, ill-conceived Employee Free Choice Act. Even though Congress rightly refused to pass the job-killing legislation, the NLRB is attempting to effectively silence employers during an organizing drive–a key goal of EFCA–by reducing the amount of time they have to make their case to employees. As a result, many workers will only hear the union’s side of the story.
The Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act would directly remedy these key concerns, as well as heading off swarms of “micro union” organizing drives introduced by the blatant special-interest ruling in the “Specialty Healthcare” decision. Micro-unions not only threaten to overwhelm job creators with burdens associated with negotiating with multiple bargaining units for similarly situated employees, but also allow union strategists to gerrymander representation elections, effectively disenfranchising employees that do not support unionization.
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The Coalition supports federal legislation known as the Secret Ballot Protection Act of 2011, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Jim DeMint (S 217) and in the House by Rep. Phil Roe (HR 972).
The Secret Ballot Protection Act amends the National Labor Relations Act by (a) making it an unfair labor practice for an employer to recognized or bargain collectively with a union that has not been selected in a secret ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board; and (b) making it an unfair labor practice for a union to cause or attempt to cause an employer to recognize or bargain collectively with such union unless it has been selected through such a secret ballot election.
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