09/30/2008
Union bosses have a new way to shove unions down your throat
North Carolina is a right-to-work state with the lowest union membership rate in the country -- 3 percent in 2007, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But that wouldn't matter under a plan Big Labor is hoping to push through the new Congress.
The so-called Employee Free Choice Act would let unions skip the usual secret ballots and organize a workplace simply by "persuading" a majority of employees to sign cards authorizing union representation, also known as card check.
Under the bill, you would have so many days to sign a contract. If you couldn't agree on terms, federal bureaucrats would come in and dictate wages and benefits.
The Employee Free Choice Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 2007 before it was stopped in the Senate, and it'll come up again in 2009.
NFIB has joined scores of other business groups in the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, which opposes card check. Help us stop the unions and Congress from shoving unions down our throats. Write your senators and representative a letter telling them to defend free enterprise and vote against card check.
Sincerely,
Gregg Thompson
NFIB State Director/North Carolina
gregg.thompson@NFIB.org
