Employee Free Choice Act Exposes Workers To Intimidation

I strongly oppose a bill introduced in the House, the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act,

By substituting an unsupervised and undemocratic Card Check system for a government-supervised private ballot process, we would be sending working families a conflicting message that voting rights end at the shop door, and that the interests of the lowest paid worker take a back seat to those of union bosses.

This bill would not only require the imposition of a workplace union, based solely on signed authorization cards, it would radically alter the longstanding process of collective-bargaining and set aside traditional methods used to resolve differences between workers and employers.  It also would end standards in place for over 70 years used to compensate parties who suffer a loss as a result of wrongful acts.

I urge the House to reject this bill.  Majority rule, free speech, and the use of the ballot box to decide important issues are not principles that should be thrown away to satisfy special interest groups. No matter how this legislation is packaged, at its core, it simply takes away an individual’s right to vote. That is a dangerous road we shouldn’t travel.