There have been only 42 findings of union card authorization fraud or coercion in the first 70 years of the NLRA.  There were 29,000 cases of employer intimidation & coercion in 2007 alone.  These are some legal and illegal tactics employers use:

• Those 29,000 cases were of firings or disciplining of workers for union activity according to a 2007 NLRB report.
• 32% of employers fire pro-union workers.
• Anywhere from 15% to 40% of employers make illegal changes to wages, benefits or working conditions in hopes of bribing workers to oppose unionizing.
• 50% of employers threaten to close down if a union is formed.
• 91% of employers have captive audience meetings and they can exclude pro-union workers from them or fire them for refusing to attend or asking questions. 

Streamlining the majority sign-up process through EFCA will likely result in less coercion than exists under current law.

• Workers are twice as likely to report employer coercion during the election process than during majority sign-up.
• Studies show that workers feel less pressure from co-workers during the majority sign-up process than a union election.

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