The Employee Free Choice Act:
Organized Labor's "Bailout" Tactic

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NEW! Real Faces of Card Check Intimidation

Watch video of employees in Albion, Indiana, sharing their stories of harassment and intimidation by UAW union operatives during a militant card check organizing drive.


Card Check: A Union Organizer Speaks

Watch video of Rian Wathen, Former Organizing Director for the UFCW, discussing how authorization cards are often collected.


Big Talker EFCA Debate

On Thursday April 2nd, Martin Payson and Michael Lotito debated representatives from the AFL-CIO, CWA and UFCW in an EFCA debate airing live on Philadelphia’s Big Talker 1210 AM.

Guests representing the Union side of the issue included:

Jeff Reichenbach, Sec. Treasurer, Communications Workers of America (national)
Patrick Eiding, President AFL-CIO, Philadelphia
Wendell Young, IV, President United Food & Commercial Workers, Philadelphia

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Breaking News!
The Employee Free Choice Act was reintroduced in Congress on March 11, 2009 with fewer co sponsors in the Senate than it had in the last session.

Click here to read the text version of EFCA, HR 1409.


What if a union says a majority of your employees have signed union cards and insists you abide by the new EFCA law and grant recognition without an NLRB election? What would you do?

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Watch what Sen. George McGovern, a lifelong Democrat & supporter of organized labor, had to say about the EFCA in a recent interview. Watch the video.

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