Use the draft letter at the VoteForBusiness.net | Action Center, or tailor it with your own words as I did. A copy of my letter is included below for your cut-and-pasting if desired.
I urge you to stand above partisan politics and take the moral high ground by opposing the flawed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
The EFCA is an icon for partisan politics at its worst. No one can deny that this bill is in fact about forced choice not free choice.
- Employees have free choice now, as I'm sure you are well aware.
- Likewise, no one can help but see the real intent of this bill, namely: to provide payback to Unions for their support of the Democratic Party, to strengthen the power of Unions in our economy and in turn increase the power of government over the people of this country.
The real intent of the EFCA is an affront to the liberty and freedom of our citizenry. Worst of all, if passed, it could cripple our economy; EFCA would have a particularly devastating impact on small employers who, as the primary source for new jobs, are counted on to reverse the current economic downturn. To vote for the EFCA is to vote knowingly for partisan politics at the expense of citizens' rights and the health of our economy.
Please protect the ability of American workers to choose whether or not to unionize through federally-supervised secret ballot elections. The bill consists of three provisions, each of which is unacceptable:
- Elimination of the Secret Ballot: Trading the secret ballot process for one that invites intimidation and coercion and leads to widespread disenfranchisement of workers is not a step in the right direction.
- Writing contracts through government imposed arbitration: Forced arbitration would impose unreasonable and inflexible terms and cause an employer to lose control over their operations, preventing them from growing their business.
- Unreasonable and one-sided penalty expansion: EFCA imposes dramatic new penalties on employers for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, but not a single new penalty on unions or labor organizers.
This bill is an awful idea in good economic times and a catastrophic idea in the difficult economic times now upon us. I again urge you, please, do not support or cosponsor the Employee Free Choice Act.
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