The misnamed Employee Free Choice Act does more than take away workers' rights to vote in private. It also gives control of the workplace to government bureaucrats.

Government officials would write the collective bargaining agreements of most newly organized companies. The government would set not just wages and benefits but all business operations that significantly affect workers, such as promotion procedures, retirement plans, health benefits, subcontracting, mergers, work assignments, even the machines used to run a plant. Employers would lose the ability to pursue their business strategies, and workers would lose all say about their workplace for two years.

EFCA effectively constitutes a government takeover of America's workplaces.

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Heritage Research

January 14, 2010
The Employee Free Choice Act: The Heritage Foundation 2010 Labor Boot Camp
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #2764)
Passing EFCA means fewer jobs and less economic growth.

October 13, 2009
Time for Congress to Work Under the Same Rules as the Private Sector
By James Sherk and Ryan O'Donnell
(Backgrounder #2326)
All too often, Congress imposes restrictive and burdensome regulations on employers in the private sector--while conveniently exempting itself from these same rules. Many Members of ...

June 15, 2009
Organized Labor Concedes: Employer Violations Rare in Secret Ballot Elections
By James Sherk
(Backgrounder #2287)
The union movement's own data analysis shows that employer intimidation rarely occurs. Employers win union elections by educating workers about the downsides of unionizing. Kate ...

March 31, 2009
Labor Union Snap Elections Deprive Employees of Informed Choice
By James Sherk and Ryan O’Donnell
(WebMemo #2371)
Snap elections preserve the secret ballot in name only because they compromise the election process: With only a few days to hear both sides of ...

March 20, 2009
Cracking the Bedrock of Democracy: Destroying the Secret Ballot in Union Elections
By Hans A. von Spakovsky
(Legal Memorandum #38)
The Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 would fundamentally change the nature of the relationship between unions, employers, and employees. The only reason to eliminate ...

March 12, 2009
EFCA Authorizes Government Control of 4 Million Small Businesses
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #2341)
The Employee Free Choice Act does more than take away secret ballot elections: It empowers the federal government to impose contracts on newly organized companies. ...

March 11, 2009
EFCA: High-Pressure Spin Selling and Creative Organizing for Labor Unions
By James Sherk and Ryan O’Donnell
(WebMemo #2335)
Under EFCA, union organizers will be free to use aggressive and emotionally manipulative sales techniques to pressure or mislead employees into joining a union.

March 10, 2009
Card Check Creates Government-Run Workplaces
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #2334)
EFCA gives control of the workplace to government bureaucrats.

March 6, 2009
Heritage Jobs Report: February Employment Losses Would Be Worse with Card Check
By Rea S. Hederman Jr. and James Sherk
(WebMemo #2330)
February continued the miserable string of poor employment reports by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consequently, Congress and the President should take action to strengthen ...

August 27, 2008
Employee Free Choice Act Effectively Eliminates Secret Ballot Organizing Elections
By James Sherk
(Backgrounder #2175)
Organized labor’s highest legislative priority is the deceptively named Employee Free Choice Act. EFCA replaces secret ballot elections—the method by which most workers join unions—with ...

January 7, 2008
Employee Free Choice Act Would Disenfranchise 105 Million Workers
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1768)
Congress should preserve secret ballot voting for union-organizing elections.

April 23, 2007
How the Employee Free Choice Act Takes Away Workers' Rights
By James Sherk and Paul Kersey
(Backgrounder #2027)
The Employee Free Choice Act would strip American workers of their right to a private-ballot vote, require companies to submit to binding arbitration, and increase ...

April 11, 2007
NLRB Organizing Elections Favor Unions, Not Employers
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1421)
The current election laws favor union organizers, not employers.

March 12, 2007
The Truth About Improper Firings and Union Intimidation
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1393)
Workers should not lose their fundamental right to vote for or against unionization in privacy as a result of labor activists' bad statistics.

March 7, 2007
Unions Know That Card Check Does Not Reveal Employees' Free Choice
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1386)
In private, union activists acknowledge that workers often sign union cards because of peer pressure or harassment and that publicly signed cards do not reflect ...

February 23, 2007
Card Checks Would Not Solve Alleged Problems with Union Organizing Elections
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1369)
Even if unions' complaints about private-ballot elections were true, forcing workers to vote in public would not end the alleged abuses.

November 14, 2006
Card Check Undermines Workplace Democracy
By James Sherk
(WebMemo #1255)
Only private ballots let workers express their desire to join or not join a union without pressure or fear of retribution.

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