Forbes Says Card Check Bill Means ‘Soviet-Style’ Union Elections
Apr9(CNSNews.com) – Magazine publisher Steve Forbes said Tuesday the proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would eliminate the use of secret ballots in union elections and bring about binding arbitration that would remove employers and employees from the contract negotiation process — and let government arbitrators dictate first contracts.
“It’s more of a Soviet-style way of doing union elections,” Forbes said during a conference call news conference. “[It] goes against the grain of American tradition.”
Under current law, workers can vote for or against unionization through a secret-ballot election supervised by the federal government’s National Labor Relations Board…
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