Major Change in Unionization Rules —Fiorenza

The EFCA essentially makes the following five changes to the NLRA:

1) The union can be certified as the bargaining representative of a company’s employees without a campaign or secret ballot vote. Specifically, the bill would allow unions to simply submit “authorization cards” from a majority of employees (within a proposed bargaining unit) to become certified. In other words, if a majority of the employees in the unit sign authorization cards, the union would automatically represent them without any campaign or vote, i.e., without the employees ever hearing the employer’s side of the story.