To: The Detroit News
Re: “Making union organizing easier will fuel economic growth”, Sept. 5.
Writers in your “Labor Voices” column keep trying to convince us about the benefits of the Employees Free Choice Act for workers and for our general economy but they do not stress the fact that the main recipients of the Act’s benefits will be the unions themselves.
The Employees Free Choice Act actually takes away the secret ballot elections that employees now use to chose or deny union representation in their workplace. The secret ballot elections would be replaced by so called “card checks” where union organizers can confront employees directly and intimidate them into signing union cards.
Yes, union organizing would be made much easier but workers would have to give up their freedom to choose or deny unionization through a secret ballot election. I don’t see how anyone but the unions benefits from this legislation.
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