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Article: Fast Track Elections Likely To Replace Card-Check In EFCA Compromise Bill.(Employee Free Choice Act)(Law overview)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- October 6, 2009
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When President Obama was elected last November, it was widely speculated that the Employee Free Choice Act would be among the first pieces of significant legislation to be pushed through Congress, with the possibility that the National Labor Relations Board might be running card-checks in place of secret-ballot elections by the middle of this year. That, of course, has not happened. The NLRB is still conducting elections in workplaces across the country, and there is every reason to believe that it will continue to do so for some time to come. In fact, it now appears that EFCA's highly politicized card-check provision, once its "sacred cow," may not be "in the cards" at ...