Advocacy within the Association
The National Labor Relations Act:
(the information below comes from the Society of Human Resources Management)
The legislation would
amend the National Labor Relations Act to allow unions to use the “card check”
process – and bypass the secure, private election format – each time they
attempt to organize workers.
Background
The National Labor
Relations Act currently provides two opportunities for employees to decide
whether or not to form or join a union:
> Private ballot
election - When
a union receives a majority of votes through a secret ballot election
administered by the National Labor Relations Board, the union is certified as
the sole bargaining agent on behalf of the employees, or
> “Card check”
recognition -
When a union receives at least 30 percent of signed authorization cards, the
employer can request that a private ballot election be held. (When a union
receives at least 50 percent of signed cards, the employer can either recognize
the union immediately or request an election.)
Legislation
The EFCA would
dramatically change federal labor law. The legislation would allow a union to
bypass the election process after collecting authorization cards from a majority
of employees. Thus, employers would lose the right to request that an election
be held.
If enacted into law,
EFCA would:
> Eliminate employees’ opportunity to
vote in a federally-administered, private ballot election;
> Restrict an employer’s communications to employees about the workplace issues involved in the union organizing drive; and
> Create new fines against employers for an expanded list of unfair labor practices
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