Private Ballots No More

The Employee Free Choice Act rewrites current laws regarding the unionizing of workforces. Under current law, employees must first sign a card indicating a desire to consider union representation and then have a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) supervised secret ballot election.

If enacted, this legislation would require the company and the NLRB to accept the card check without a secret ballot vote if more than 50 % of the employees submit authorization cards. 

The American Trucking Associations fully supports the right of workers to organize.  ATA also believes preserving an employee's right to cast a secret ballot - as voters do in the election of public officials - is critical to the integrity of the process. Any legislative proposal that denies a secret ballot election to workers is simply undemocratic.