Card Check the Game Facts
There are many. They range from taking away employees' rights to a private ballot on whether or not to organize to forcing businesses into binding, government-dictated arbitration settlements. To learn more, visit the EFCA information page on the Alliance for Worker Freedom website.
"Card Check" is any process by which an employees' right to a federally supervised private ballot election is taken away. This can occur by union organizers coming to a business and asking workers to sign a card in public, or by having mail-in cards; the union, your co-workers and your employee will still know how you voted.
The Employee Free-Choice Act's (EFCA's) arbitration clause undermines workers' right to have the final say over the terms and conditions under which they work. Instead, EFCA transfers that power in many cases to unaccountable government arbitrators with no stake in a workable outcome. For more information, read "EFCA's Toxic Arbitration Clause."
According to the National Institute for Labor Relations, there have been over 9000 recorded incidences of union violence, but have recorded only 1,963 arrests and 258 convictions.
According to the National Right to Work Committee, the International Machinist Union has a private Learjet for the union bosses use - all paid for by force union dues.
Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 1103 union was sued by Patricia Pelletier for, among other instances of harassment and ID theft, planting cocaine in her office while she was leading a fight to decertify the union. The union settled out of court. See the press release at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc. You can see Miss Pelletier's testimony here.
