The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) does not create a new majority sign-up procedure, it has been around since the law passed.

• Originally, NLRB elections were held only when there was a question of majority support for unionizing.

EFCA does NOT eliminate -- or change in any way -- workers’ right to a secret ballot for union elections.  EFCA just gives workers, NOT their employer, the right to decide how they will determine whether to join a union.

• EFCA only changes the section of law regarding majority sign-up provisions, not the election process.
  
  
• Under current law, even if 100% of workers in a company sign cards supporting unionization their employer can force an election.  This makes no sense and is unfair.
  
  
• EFCA lets the majority of employees decide how to form a union, not their employer.
  
  
• If a majority signs automatic authorization cards, then they will have a union.  If a majority wants an election, they will have an election.  Workers don’t have to sign the majority sign-up card if they want a secret ballot.

There is nothing more American or democratic than the idea of majority rule.

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