Are secret ballot elections necessarily eliminated by the Employee Free Choice Act?
No. Like the existing law, if more than 30 percent, but less than a majority of workers sign union authorization cards, a secret ballot election would still take place if requested by the employer. In addition, secret ballot elections could take place under certain other circumstances.5 Dont U.S. workers already have laws on labor relations that allow union organizing? Yes, at least on paper. For more than 70 years, workers in the U.S. have had the legal right to organize unions to represent them in the workplace. The National Labor Relations Act clearly sought to establish a balance between the power of employers and the limited power of individual workers. This law declared that the policy of the U. S. is to guarantee to workers the rights to full freedom of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection.6 [emphasis added] In practice
