Act levels playing field (letter to editor The Employee Free Choice)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/227499/

Second letter.

Act levels playing field

In Mike Masterson's column concerning card checks and labor unions, he either purposefully or ignorantly left out some very important facts. Primarily, he did not tell the reader that a union election currently is a twopart event. First a majority of those who would be eligible for membership must sign an authorization card commonly known as an A-card. If a majority of the workers sign an A-card, then a secret ballot election is scheduled by the National Labor Relations Board. The election is usually held two or three months after the A-cards are verified by the National Labor Relations Board. The Employee Free Choice Act would do away with the completely unnecessary anonymous election. The reason it is unnecessary is because a majority of the employees have already signed the Acard, indicating that they want union representation. The reason businesses and some people like the status quo is that it gives the company time to use some very dirty tricks to convince those potential union members to vote against that for which they have already voted. The companies typically tell some whopping lies to their employees concerning losing their jobs and almost always fire anyone they suspect of helping to organize. The organizers have nowhere near the influence that the employer has. In fact, the company usually makes it difficult to even talk to the employees. The Employee Free Choice Act would simply give a fair playing field to the workers.
DAVID W. CORLESS / Conway

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1. Yep....

...the A-card is the first act of defiance. Why give the employer 3 months to squelch that? K&R...