Opposing Card Check

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By taking action below, you’re joining manufacturing advocates who are urging Congress to vote NO on Card Check and any related policies that unfairly put the interests of labor groups above the protections of America’s workers.

What’s at Stake

UPDATE: After successfully preventing the passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, some lawmakers have managed to sneak Card Check into the current National Defense Authorization Act, which has already passed the House and is now headed to the Senate.

Also known as the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, Card Check threatens some workers workplace privacy and security. Card Check upends long-standing labor-management relations by abolishing the secret ballot and giving unions a fast-track process to conduct a unionization effort and elections with no oversight.

Card Check would effectively strip workers of their ability to vote in a union election without fear of pressure from labor groups, their employer and coworkers. Our workers deserve better and our action to once again protect a worker’s right to a secret ballot in any circumstance.

Fast Facts

This simple term might sound harmless, but it poses a huge threat to our workers.  Simply put, Card Check will:

• Eliminate the secret ballot by taking away the ability for workers to privately cast their votes in a union election.
• Make available a worker’s vote on a physical card for union organizers and their co-workers to see.
• Take away fair and representative elections that will overturn long-standing precedent under the National Labor Relations Act.
• Make fraud and coercion more prevalent to advance unionization efforts because a federally supervised election is traded for a very loosely managed Card Check process.

This is not about free choice. Card Check is forced choice. The right to a secret ballot to cast a vote should never be threatened in any circumstance.