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Card Check Will Hurt Union Workers Too, AGC's Steve Sandherr Explains in OpEd

AGC of America's chief executive officer Steve Sandherr explains why the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, or card check for short, will hurt unionized construction workers in an opinion piece published in the Washington Examiner on May 5th.  As he explains, the proposal's mandatory arbitration provisions would disrupt area-wide collective bargaining and weaken single-craft union pension plans, among other problems.  He adds that "compromise" proposals likely to be introduced this summer to are almost certain to include the mandatory arbitration provision from the current version.  Click here to read the piece: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Card-Check-is-bad-for-union-workers-too-44355182.html