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Continue Sending Letters Discouraging Support of "Card Check"

Supporters of the (so-called) Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) remain short of their goal of original cosponsors thanks to ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ members voicing their concerns. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ opposes EFCA and urges ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ members to discourage cosponsorship. EFCA would take away a worker's right to a federally supervised private ballot election when deciding whether or not to select union representation. It also imposes unrealistically short deadlines for labor-management negotiations over a first contract before mandating third-party mediation and binding arbitration. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ supports the status quo, which allows both card-check recognition and secret-ballot elections to establish union representation and remains the most fair and reliable way to determine the desire of employees to be represented by a union. Please reach out to your Members of Congress to urge them not to co-sponsor or support the bill. Make your voice heard on this issue by using . Contact your congressional delegation today and urge them not to co-sponsor or support the (so-called) Employee Free Choice Act.