Employee Free Choice Act: Grassroots Toolkit

Use these resources to help educate your membership and others in your community about the threat of this legislation.

Five Key Actions You Can Take

1. Keep your community up to date with the newest talking points on EFCA
2. Post the Virtual March web sticker on your Web site (link to http://secretballot.voteforbusiness.net/join.php)
3. Use Tom Donohue's latest article in your communication pieces
4. Visit your Senators and Congressman's district offices:
   Contact Information
5. Send your members an online action alert to generate letters to your elected officials

Communications Resources

• Sample Card Check Letter to the Editor (Word)
• EFCA Facts - Myth vs Reality (PDF)
• Card Check: Mind if the Unions Watched You Vote? (PDF)
• Card Check One Pager (PDF)
• Sample EFCA Policy Statement (Word)
• The Impact of EFCA in Right to Work States (PDF)
• Congress Should Protect the Private Vote (PDF)
  Download a copy of an article Glenn Spencer wrote for Prairie Fire, a Lincoln, Nebraska publication owned by the former field director to Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE). Glenn Spencer is the Executive Director of the Workforce Freedom Initiative at the U.S. Chamber.
• Possible New EFCA Provisions (PDF)
• Beware of False Compromises on Card Check

White Papers - Responding to Union Rhetoric: The Reality of the American Workplace:

• Is Unionization the Ticket to the Middle Class? The Real Economic Effects of Labor Unions (PDF)
• The Truth About American Workers: They are Satisfied, Respected, and Benefiting from Productivity Gains (PDF)
• The Union Representation Process Under the National Labor Relations Act: Maintaining Employee Free Choice for over 70 Years (PDF)
• New: Union Studies on Employer Coercion Lack Credibility and Integrity(PDF)

Member Outreach Resources

• Email Template 1 (Word)
• Email Template 2 (Word)
  Use a template to contact your members about EFCA and encourage them to get involved in the fight on Capitol Hill through the Virtual March.
• Newsletter Template 1 (Word)
• Newsletter Template 2 (Word)
• Chamber Newsletter Article (by Thomas J. Donohue): Employee Free Choice Act Op-Ed (PDF)
• Chamber Newsletter Article (by Thomas J. Donohue): A Union Power Grab (Word)
• Web Sticker (jpeg)
  Promote the Virtual March to Save the Secret Ballot on your Website. Link to http://secretballot.voteforbusiness.net/join.php)

Congressional Outreach Resources

• Post Hill Meeting Thank You Letter (Word)
  Please be sure to include a personal story on why EFCA would be bad to your community, state, and/or company.
• EFCA Letter to your Senator or Congress (Word)
• Card Check How They Voted 2007- Senate (PDF)
• U.S.  Chamber of Commerce Letter to Congress  (11/21/2008)
• U. S. Chamber of Commerce Letter to Congress  (11/21/2008) (PDF)
  This letter urges members not to cosponsor H.R. 800/S. 1041, the "Employee Free Choice Act", legislation.
• Governors' Letter Opposing Card Check (PDF)
  This letter was sent to Senator Reid, Senator McConnell, Speaker Pelosi, and Representative Boehner on January 8, 2009.
• U. S. Chamber of Commerce Letter to Congress  (1/28/2009) (PDF)
  This letter outlines the three provisions of H.R. 800/S. 1041, the "Employee Free Choice Act", all of which are unacceptable.
• Chambers of Commerce in Right-to-Work States: Letter to House and Senate Members (2/11/2009)
  Signed by over 190 chambers of commerce in 22 states urging their congressional delegation to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. Sign on today!
• Letter to the Minnesota Delegation Opposing the Employee Free Choice Act
  Signed by the Minnesota Business Leaders Coalition Members. Sign on today!
• U. S. Chamber of Commerce Letter to the Senate  (6/17/09) (PDF)
  This letter addresses one of the compromises being floated around on the Hill regarding binding interest arbitration, which the U.S. Chamber opposes in any form.
• Congressional Home Office Contact Information

Email Kristin Angus (kangus@uschamber.com) if you have any resources that you would be willing to share on this page with others or any comments and suggestions!