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Article: Much ado about ... "card check": passage of the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act is organized labor's top priority.(GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)
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- Franchising World
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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It's back. The top legislative priority for the International Franchise Association is the defeat of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act or "card-check." Enactment of this legislation remains the top legislative priority for organized labor. In 2007, EFCA passed the U.S. House of Representatives and went on to receive a majority of support in the Senate. President-elect Obama said numerous times during his campaign that he would support the legislation and sign it into law if elected.
As the election cycle wore on last year, more and more news articles appeared about the act across the country. Letters to editors were submitted to local and state newspapers ...