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Card Check and Voting Privacy

The ability to vote in privacy with a secret ballot is a fundamental American right. It is a right that some in Congress now want to take away from American workers. The Employee Free Choice Act would strip workers of their right to vote on joining a union. Instead workers would be required to publicly sign a card in front of union organizers, leaving them vulnerable to threats, harassment, and abuse. It would also require companies to go to binding arbitration. This would lead to massive government wage setting in the economy while taking away newly unionized workers ability to vote to ratify collective bargaining agreements.

 
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January 7, 2008
Employee Free Choice Act Would Disenfranchise 105 Million Workers
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1768)
Congress should preserve secret ballot voting for union-organizing elections.

 

April 27, 2007
Binding Arbitration Could Force Workers into Underfunded Pensions
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1436)
Congress should not endanger workers' retirement security by allowing government arbitrators to force workers into financially unstable or insolvent plans.

 

April 23, 2007
How the Employee Free Choice Act Takes Away Workers' Rights
By James Sherk and Paul Kersey
(Backgrounder #2027)
The Employee Free Choice Act would strip American workers of their right to a private-ballot vote, require companies to submit to binding arbitration, and increase ...

 

April 11, 2007
NLRB Organizing Elections Favor Unions, Not Employers
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1421)
The current election laws favor union organizers, not employers.

 

April 9, 2007
Unions Use Corporate Campaigns to Circumvent Employees' Right to Vote
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1418)
To prevent unions from pressuring companies into giving up their workers’ rights, Congress should act to guarantee every worker the right to vote on joining ...

 

March 12, 2007
The Truth About Improper Firings and Union Intimidation
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1393)
Workers should not lose their fundamental right to vote for or against unionization in privacy as a result of labor activists' bad statistics.

 

March 7, 2007
Unions Know that Card Check Does Not Reveal Employees' Free Choice
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1386)
In private, union activists acknowledge that workers often sign union cards because of peer pressure or harassment and that publicly signed cards do not reflect ...

 

March 5, 2007
Binding Arbitration for Unions Endangers Competitiveness and Innovation
By Paul Kersey and James Sherk
(WebMemo #1384)
Proposed legislation would give government officials unprecedented power to set wages and employment conditions throughout the economy and would reduce business innovation and competitiveness.

 

March 5, 2007
Binding Arbitration: A Bad Deal for Workers
By Paul Kersey and James Sherk
(WebMemo #1383)
Under proposed legislation, workers would not get the chance to vote to approve some work contracts and would have to wait at least two years ...

 

March 1, 2007
Interest Arbitration: Risky for Unions and Employers
By Paul Kersey and James Sherk
(WebMemo #1378)
Interest arbitration would shift employers' and unions' right to negotiate contracts to unaccountable government officials, increasing the risk of bad contracts.

 

February 23, 2007
Card Checks Would Not Solve Alleged Problems with Union Organizing Elections
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1369)
Even if unions' complaints about private-ballot elections were true, forcing workers to vote in public would not end the alleged abuses.

 

February 21, 2007
How Union Card Checks Block Workers' Free Choice
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1366)
Due to union organizers’ techniques, card checks often do not reflect workers’ free and considered choice about union membership.

 

February 16, 2007
Workers Reject Card Checks, Favor Private Ballots in Union Organizing
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1363)
Most Americans, and most union members, oppose replacing private-ballot elections with card checks.

 

February 13, 2007
NLRB Union Elections Safeguard Workers' Rights
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1359)
Congress should not take away workers' fundamental right to a private ballot because of unions' anecdotes about private voting.

 

November 14, 2006
Card Check Undermines Workplace Democracy
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1255)
Only private ballots let workers express their desire to join or not join a union without pressure or fear of retribution.

 
 
 
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