EFCA: How President-Elect Obama Might Change Labor Management Relations

Will President-Elect Obama Sign The Employee Free Choice Act?

The just-ended political campaigns have familiarized many voters with the fact that some candidates have promised to support a bill called the "Employee Free Choice Act," and that the bill would take away the right of working people to vote in private about whether they want to be represented by a union. In Minnesota, the close Senate race between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken featured almost-daily Republican advertisements criticizing Franken for supporting EFCA. Even former Democratic Presidential Nominee George McGovern weighed in on the issue generally. To the surprise of many, he appeared in an advertisement speaking against the bill and criticizing organized labor for overreaching in trying to take away the right of working people to vote in private. While the focus of the political ads was on the fact that the bill would disenfranchise workers, there are many other provisions of