FICTION: Employee Free Choice eliminates the secret ballot and replaces it with majority sign-up. This process will expose workers to coercion by their co-workers and union representatives to support the union.

FACT: Employee Free Choice does not remove the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election process; it gives employees a choice between an election and majority sign-up. Currently, the boss decides which process workers will use. By choosing an NLRB election, managers give themselves the opportunity to coerce employees into voting against union representation. When an employer is faced with a union organizing drive:

• 30% fire pro-union workers;
   

• 49% threaten to close a worksite when workers try to form a union, but only 2% actually do;
   

• 51% coerce workers into opposing unions with bribery or favoritism;
   

• 82% hire high-priced union busting consultants to fight union organizing drives; and
   

• 91% force employees to attend one-on-one anti-union meetings with their supervisors.¹

FICTION: The current law adequately protects workers from employer coercion by imposing penalties on companies caught illegally intimidating workers who want union representation.

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