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What is the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)?

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would dramatically and unfairly change the process by which workplace labor union elections are conducted.
The current system would be replaced with a "card check" shortcut where a workplace would be automatically be unionized if 50 percent of the workers simply sign an authorization card, enabling a Labor Union to totally control the process.

How does EFCA Affect Retailers?

With consumer confidence and spending in decline, retailers will bear a disproportionate burden if the EFCA is passed.
EFCA would effectively remove a fundamental principle of American democracy for retail workers – their right to request a secret-ballot election in deciding on union representation.

What Can Retailers Do About EFCA?

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1. What does the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) do?

2. Why are the nation's Labor Unions pushing Congress and President-elect Obama to enact EFCA?

3. Do current labor laws protect the rights of workers in union-organizing elections?

"Card check" is the fairest and most effective way to determine the wishes of a majority of employees when they decide on whether to have a union in the workplace.

EFCA gives employees the option of using a card check scheme; it does not replace the secret ballot election. Employees are still free to choose a secret ballot process.

The current secret ballot election process takes too long and delays of months or years are common.

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