Contact Your U.S. Senator and Representative  tell them to oppose any the Employee Free Choice Act as harmful to small business  in Virginia.

Senator Jim Webb

Click HERE to Email Senator Jim Webb

248 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-4024
Fax: 202-228-6363

Senator Mark Warner

Click HERE to Email Senator Mark Warner

459A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2023
Fax: 202-224-6295

House of Representatives

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Sample Letters:

I’ve heard people say that there is nothing to worry about regarding the card check bill because “card check” is dead.  That is simply wrong.  The Employee Free Choice Act is alive in the House and Senate, with details and compromises still being ironed out.  One of the most concerning things being tossed around is the issue of binding arbitration.

Simply put, binding arbitration is the government coming in and dictating the terms of contract for a company and its employees.  Neither side gets a say, neither side gets to approve or negotiate.  What the government orders you to pay your employees, and what benefits the government decides employees will receive are set in stone for two years.

This is America.  What has made this country great is entrepreneurial spirit, people taking risks, investing their time and money to be successful.  Where is the incentive to risk everything if the government can come in and take over your business and dictate how you will run it?

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Card Check or the Employee Free Choice Act, regardless of what name they put on it, is a bad piece of legislation for our country.

It is a fact that small business is the backbone of America.  Individuals have the freedom to put their time and efforts into something with the hopes of becoming successful and making a better life for themselves.  The risk was theirs, and the losses or rewards were theirs as well.  Under the Employee Free Choice Act, the risk is still theirs, the losses are still theirs, but the decision making is up to big government.

Even though the card check part of EFCA has been all but stripped out there are still very significant problems with what is being floated as the compromise bill, beginning with binding arbitration.  The government wants the authority to mandate the terms of private contracts between employer and employee.  This is ludicrous.  Private enterprise should be private.  We’ve seen how well the government manages programs, why in the world would we want some Washington bureaucrat to manage private companies?

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There is no freedom in the Employee Free Choice Act.  What there is, is an erosion of freedoms that we as a country may never recover from.

People think that because card check has been negotiated out of the Employee Free Choice Act that there is nothing more to be concerned about.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.

This bill is still full of big government mandates that strip away the rights of business owners to run their businesses the way they see fit.  From binding arbitration to what they call equal workplace access, the government is all but trying to do away with private enterprise.

Binding arbitration gives the federal government that managed Hurricane Katrina and gave billions to bail out Wall Street the power to tell private businesses how they should be managed.  It actually gives Washington the power to mandate terms of an employment contract.

Equal workplace access mandates that you open your place of business to union thugs to come in and try and recruit employees into their union.

EFCA is a dangerous piece of legislation for America.  Giving government this much authority over private enterprise is a very slippery slope.