Exposing EFCA

The danger of the Employee Forced Choice Act extends well beyond a denial of Arkansans democratic rights. EFCA would dramatically change the nature of the Arkansas workplace, inserting Washington bureaucrats into the most basic decisions about your job or your business. If an employer and a union don't reach a contract agreement within 90 days, a Federal "arbitrator" can step in to unilaterally impose contract terms -- without a full vote of the workforce that is currently required in union contract negotiations.

That's right: EFCA not only ends automatic elections on whether to form a union, but it drastically undermines your right to vote on contracts too. EFCA would create a culture of cynicism and mistrust in American workplaces -- when surveys show that over 74% of workers not in unions are satisfied with workplace relations. Arkansans could see unions formed in the dark of night and take over control of their workplace without their knowledge. Stealth union campaigns could target workers again and again to sign cards in their homes at night or wherever a union could track them down. And at the end of it, Federal bureaucrats could be given absolute control to impose unfair contracts dictating how workers do their jobs.