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The Employee Free Choice Act offers to make binding an alternative process under which a majority of employees can sign up to join a union. Currently, employers can choose to accept--but are not bound by law to accept--the signed decision of a majority of workers.
Former Democratic Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern continues to speak out against the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, which he has described as an effort to undermine workplace democracy, because it would replace secret ballot elections with a process known as “card check,” whereby union organizers ask employees to ...
Instead of a private election with a secret ballot overseen by an impartial federal board, union organizers would simply need to gather signatures from more than 50% of the employees in a workplace or bargaining unit, a system known as "card-check."
Oct 21, 2012 · McGovern lobbied Congress against card check, and he also appeared in an ad sponsored by a pro-business group that called secret ballots in union elections a “basic right.”
Jan 28, 2009 · For instance, last summer, George McGovern—the former Senator and Democratic presidential candidate—penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal decrying card check and its assault on worker rights. Among his words—
Oct 23, 2012 · Few mentioned McGovern’s final crusade: opposing the Big Labor-backed Employee Free Choice Act, more commonly known as the “card check” bill.
Aug 8, 2008 · Far Left stalwart and former Democratic nominee for President George McGovern comes out swinging in the pages of the Wall Street Journal against Big Labor’s demand for mandating coercive card check in union organizing drives: Voting is an immense privilege.
