To: The Detroit Free Press
Re: “Change union – forming rules?” March 27th.
The new “Employee Free Choice Act” does away with employee secret ballot elections to choose whether to accept or deny unionization and replaces it with a card signing method. Employees will be approached by union organizers and will be asked if they support the union or not and they will have to answer loudly and in front of all the union supporting men. Does this sound a little intimidating? Reminds me of the days when union thugs made sure workers supported the union or else… Where is the free choice in this act?
Jan, tell us how you really feel about this legislation? You'll be happy to know that at the Senate Committee hearings today, all of the pro-union witnesses assured the Senators that union coercion is extremely rare in organizing efforts -- a "drop in the bucket" compared to employer wrong-doing.
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