Card Check information Seminar

 

The Faribault Area Chamber of Commerce has joined other business organizations in Minnesota and across the country in opposition to the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, or better known as Card Check. 

 

The Employee Free Choice Act creates a low-cost and virtually guaranteed way for unions to win organizing campaigns. Instead of allowing workers to vote their conscience in private, union organizers would be given free reign to pressure workers into publicly signing legally-binding cards supporting a union. Once 50 percent of workers at a facility are persuaded to sign, it would be against the law to hold a secret ballot election, even if many workers wanted one.

 

Under current law, the decision of whether or not to form a union is usually left to the workers — through a secret ballot election. That means that workers can choose — in private — whether they want to join a union. Under Card Check, union organizers would be free to “persuade” workers to publicly sign a card stating that they support the union. Union organizers could ask workers to sign a card just about anywhere — in the parking lot after work, at a restaurant, even at home. Once more than 50% sign cards, workers would be stuck with the union — no more debate and no secret ballot election.

 

We need our elected officials to protect secret ballot rights in our workplaces before this legislation does irrevocable harm to our small businesses and our struggling economy.