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Labor/Employment

Mar. 30, 2007

Freedom Reins

Forum Column - By Joseph E. Herman - The Employee Free Choice Act is anything but what its name implies.

FORUM COLUMN

By Joseph E. Herman

      In verbal jujitsu that would impress George Orwell, the House recently passed The Employee Free Choice Act (HR 800), which would result in the most important changes in federal labor law since the Depression. Contrary to its title, the act would deprive employees of free choice in two critical areas by eliminating their rights to: (1) a secret ballot election to determine union representation, ...

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