Congressman Aderholt Statement Voicing Concern With The Employee Free Choice Act

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Congressman Robert Aderholt today issued the following statement on the so-called Employee Free Choice Act. Also known as "card check" legislation, the bill introduced in Congress today would effectively eliminate secret ballots in workplace organizing elections, making workers vulnerable to public pressure and intimidation.

"This so-called Employee Free Choice Act is legislation that would simply strip away individual liberties and has the potential to kill millions of much-needed jobs by eliminating secret ballots. The proposed "card check" process would require only a simple majority of worker signatures on cards without any privacy and I believe that this process is the wrong way to provide hard working Americans options in their workplace. "

"Americans are overwhelmingly against this bill, and even Obama supporter and economic advisor Warren Buffett criticized the Democrats' Card Check bill yesterday on national television."

"If workers decide to unionize, then they should be protected from intimidation or coercion from company management. I urge my colleagues to instead support an alternative, "The Secret Ballot Protection Act", which protects the rights of workers to have secret ballot elections when determining whether to form a union. It prevents unionization based solely on "card check" and protects American workers from threats and intimidation."

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