The Good, Bad & Ugly of Card-Check
Is it pay-back time or about time? When it comes to "card-check," slang for the Employee Free-Choice Act - one of the first pieces of legislation likely to go before Congress when it reconvenes in January - it depends on who you ask.
Today, if a union organizer goes into a workplace and gets 30 percent of the employees to sign a "union interest" card, an election is ordered by the National Labor Relations Board. A secret-ballot vote is held six ...
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