Supporters of the (so-called) Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) are making a push to introduce this legislation in the House very soon and are continuing to push for original co-sponsors of the bill. AGC opposes the Employee Free Choice Act and urges AGC members to discourage cosponsorship.
EFCA would take away a worker's right to a federally supervised private ballot election when deciding whether or not to select union representation. It also imposes unrealistically short deadlines for labor-management negotiations over a first contract before mandating third-party mediation and binding arbitration.
AGC supports the status quo, which allows both card-check recognition and secret-ballot elections to establish union representation and remains the most fair and reliable way to determine the desire of employees to be represented by a union.
Please reach out to your Members of Congress to urge them not to co-sponsor or support the bill. Just last week over 4,000 AGC members made their voice heard on this issue by using . Contact your congressional delegation today and urge them not to co-sponsor or support the (so-called) Employee Free Choice Act.
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