Outgoing AFL-CIO president would accept fast elections in place of card check in EFCA

September 3, 2009 8:00 PM

Too much pressure from business on the Democrats in Congress has caused former AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney to give up on a provision of the Employee Free Choice Act that would replace National Labor Relations Board elections with union authorization card counts. Instead, Sweeney is backing an alternate provision that would mandate faster and more timely elections, which would prevent management from having as much time to coerce and intimidate workers. Sweeney explained his change of position by saying that the faster holding of union elections would minimize management interference during organizing drives and make it harder for opponents of the EFCA to attack it.

Greenhouse, Steven. AFL-CIO chief would back bill without card-check. NY Times, September 5, 2009.
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