Employee Free Choice Act: Ontario Experiences and Potential Economic Impact. (UNBLJ Forum: Recent Developments in Canadian Labour and Employment Law‪)‬

"Democracy" is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. The Employee Free Choice Act (the "EFCA") is bipartisan legislation that would, among other provisions, eliminate the requirement of a secret ballot vote during a union organizing campaign, and instead, require the certification of a union that is able to demonstrate that it has the support of a simple majority of employees in a workplace. During the 2008 United States presidential campaign, Barack Obama pledged his support for the EFCA and declared that its passage was a matter of "when", not "if". President Obama's ardent support of these fundamental changes to the National Labor Relations Act (the "NLRA") has led policy makers, labour practitioners, and lawyers to contemplate the impact that these amendments could have on workplaces across the United States.