TheTruthAboutEFCA.com has launched. h/t/ Tony Phrylalis

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) today launched a new website, TheTruthAboutEFCA.com, to help educate the public about the sweeping economic and workplace consequences of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), or “card check” legislation. TheTruthAboutEFCA.com will track the latest news from the mainstream media and social networking sites, highlight academic studies and public opinion data, and contain video ads and interviews to expose EFCA’s threat to the U.S. economy and an employee’s right to a federally supervised private-ballot during union organizing activities.

[press release]

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From the website

On February 3, 2009 University of Chicago law school professor Richard A. Epstein published an in-depth monograph exploring the history of union organizing law and the effects of EFCA. The abstract for that publication reads: “EFCA would fundamentally alter the current labor law in three ways.” He explains:

* The first of these is to allow unions to opt for recognition through a card check instead of the secret ballot currently required under the National Labor Relations Act.
* The second would institute a regime, if the parties do not reach an agreement within 130 days after the union is recognized, of compusory arbitration and arbitrator-imposed requirements and restrictions, binding for a two-year period.
* The third would increase the current sanctions for unfair labor practices committed by employers during an organizational campaign.

Read the full report here [pdf]

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