William Lurye, associate general counsel, AFL-CIO: The Employee Free Choice Act will make it easier for workers to bargain for better wages and benefits. If a majority of employees...sign documents stating they want to be represented by a union, the employer will be required to deal with the union. Or, if the employees decide they want an election about whether the union will represent them, an election will be held. Either way, it becomes the employees’ choice... Employer-mandated elections have resulted in workers being illegally fired in a quarter of these election campaigns. Employees are routinely threatened... R. Lee Creasman, labor and employment attorney and partner, Elarbee Thompson: No, the Employee Free Choice Act threatens to eliminate individual workers’ freedoms... EFCA would eliminate secret-ballot union elections and replace the right to vote with a procedure where a union would represent employees if a majority of employees sign union authorization cards, with little regard for the type of pressure exerted on employees to sign cards.