Employee Free Choice ACT EFCA aka Card Check

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Employee Free Choice ACTEFCA aka Card Check

• 2009

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EFCA Card Check

• Current System - Secret Ballot Election
• Union Organizers must gather signed cards from
  30 of workforce to force an election.

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EFCC-Card Check

• Current System - Secret Ballot Election
• Union organizers turn in signed cards to the NLRB
  who verifies cards and schedules election.

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EFCA Card Check

• Current System - Secret Ballot Election
• If election is scheduled, employer and unions
  begin an educational campaign for employees to
  freely make up their mind. The majority vote
  determines union status. The NLRB supervises and
  oversees the election and neither the NLRB, the
  paid union organizers, nor company management
  will know how anyone voted.

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EFCA - Card Check

• Unions are pushing Congress to pass Card Check
  legislation.
• The goal to end the current system of secret
  ballot elections.
• Why?
• Card Check allows unions to eliminate the Secret
  Ballot Election process

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EFCA Card Check

• Proposed EFCA/Card Check Legislation
• Non union workers lose the right to enter a
  secret voting booth and vote without coercion.
  Unions must collect 50 1 cards from employees
  within bargaining unit.

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EFCA Card Check

• Proposed EFCA/Card Check Legislation
• Union organizers turn in signed cards to the
  NLRB. Once verified, employer must begin
  negotiating a union agreement.

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EFCA Card Check

• Proposed EFCA/Card Check Legislation
• If after 90 days there is no union agreement, a
  federal arbitrator will be appointed and a new 2
  year union agreement could be mandated. If an
  employee felt he or she had signed the card
  mistakenly, there is no recourse.

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EFCA - Card Check

• Card Check Summary
• Employees lose the right to secret ballot
  elections
• Union organizers only have to gather signed
  authorization cards from a majority of employees
  to claim union representation for all employees
• Union organizers have a history of intimidating
  and threatening employees to sign cards

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EFCA Card Check

• Card Check Summary
• Once an employee signs a card, the union
  organizer can make this known to the employer and
  other employees
• If the majority of employees sign union cards,
  all employees will be represented by the Union,
  with no right to vote. Union dues and rules will
  quickly follow

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EFCA Card Check

• What to Expect
• Union organizers and/or even co-workers will
  approach you at work, or after work, and perhaps
  at your home or neighborhood restaurant.
• Union organizers seek to confront you in your
  home so that they can pressure you and your
  family. Their only goal is to get the card
  signed.
• They may promise better wages and benefits.
  Unions can promise anything even if they cant
  deliver.

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EFCA Card Check

• What to Expect
• Union organizers will suggest that signing the
  card is no big deal and no real commitment
• Union organizers are professionals. They are
  trained to convince you
• You are letting your family down if you dont
  sign
• You are letting your fellow employees down if you
  dont sign

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EFCA Card Check

• What Are Your Rights?
• You have the right to say NO.
• You have no obligation to sign the card.

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EFCA Card Check

• What Are Your Rights?
• You do not have to allow anyone in your home.
• You can explain to other employees the danger of
  signing the card.

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EFCA Card Check

• Employee Free Choice Act?
• or
• Employee Not So Free Choice Act?
• Card Check vs. Secret Ballot (video)

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EFCA Card Check

• Sample Card Check
• Authorization For Representation
• I hereby request and accept membership in the
  Union and designate this Union to ACT as my
  collective bargaining representative with my
  employer in all matters relating to my wages and
  other conditions of employment.
• Date___________Signature_______
  _____________

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EFCA Card Check

• If you sign the card, you have voted to be a
  union member