Removal of Card-Check Provision Makes EFCA Passage More Likely

 

The card-check provision was always intended as a bargaining chip to be taken off the table as a concession. The provision would have required employers to recognize unions after a simple majority of workers signed cards, rather than after a secret-ballot election.
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With news from Capitol Hill that the card-check provision has been dropped from the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), employers need to be concerned that passage of the controversial pro-union legislation is now more likely than ever. This potential legislation would affect landscape firms and make it easier to form a union, protecting its workers.

Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) (H.R. 1409, S. 560) is a bill presently being considered in the United States Congress. Its text states that it would ''amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.'' The latest version was introduced into both chambers of the U.S. Congress on March 10, 2009.

Now that it has been stripped out to facilitate the 60 votes needed in the Senate to prevent a filibuster, a major stumbling block to enactment has been removed.

Source: Business Management Daily