Card Check
Position: OPPOSED Status: FEDERAL BILLS INTRODUCED
The so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" (H.R. 1409, S.560) aimed to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations and to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing, by a recorded vote. The legislation would have taken away a worker's right to a federally supervised secret-ballot process when deciding whether or not to join a union. It would have replaced secret ballots with a so-called "card-check" system that lets a union organize if a majority of workers simply sign a card. Under this flawed system, workers' signatures would be made public to the employer, the union organizers and co-workers.
The so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" (H.R. 1409, S.560) aimed to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations and to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing, by a recorded vote. The legislation would have taken away a worker's right to a federally supervised secret-ballot process when deciding whether or not to join a union. It would have replaced secret ballots with a so-called "card-check" system that lets a union organize if a majority of workers simply sign a card. Under this flawed system, workers' signatures would be made public to the employer, the union organizers and co-workers.
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Mar 3, 2010
AFSCME workers to vote on union representation (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Hundzynski is a union organizer for District 1199C, usually trying to sign up nurses and other health-care workers. I'm not going to give out handbills.
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Mar 2, 2010
USC fraud case heading for trial (The State)
Card office of USC's division of business and finance. He is charged with taking money from USC's Carolina Card machines. More than 25,000 students, faculty and staff put money into the machines to add purchasing power to debit-type cards, which are used as identity cards and to make campus...
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Feb 28, 2010
Value of labor unions depends on reference point (The Buffalo News)
In New York, 72.4 percent of the government workers at the local, state and federal level are union members.
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Feb 25, 2010
Group plans petitions on secret ballots, paycheck deductions (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
...causes. The SOS Ballot Nevada initiative on paychecks really is an "impediment" to block unions from acting in their members' best interest, Kallas said. Mooney acknowledged that unions have opposed similar efforts by his group in other states, and he expects challenges in Nevada. In...
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