Good Washington Post Op-ed on EFCA

Here's how your so-called "secret ballot" elections currently function:

In 34 percent of the elections I studied, companies fired employees for union activity. In 57 percent of elections, employers threatened to shut down all or part of their facilities, and in 47 percent, employers threatened to cut wages and benefits.

In 63 percent of campaigns, supervisors met with workers one on one and interrogated them about their union activity or whether they or others were supporting the union. In 54 percent of the elections, supervisors used these one-on-ones to threaten individual workers.

Ms Bronfenbrenner's study, "No Holds Barred The Intensification of
Employer Opposition to Organizing" is available here (PDF)