'SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS COULD BE WIPED OUT BY PROPOSED CARD-CHECK LEGISLATION'

(Examiner.com) -- Examiner.com reports that the federal card-check legislation would "destroy many local companies" according to a group of concerned small business owners in Colorado. The "so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)" will "'shut down job creation,'" says A. F. Gagliardi, Colorado's state director of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) organization. "Gagliardi told Examiner.com that no business is too small to be a target of EFCA’s union organizing efforts and that "even businesses with as few as five employees will be targeted -- and may not even realize they are being organized until notified after the fact by the National Labor Relations Board. That, in turn, will set in motion a series of events that leads to binding wage and benefit arbitration for many small businesses." In regards to finding a legislative compromise, "Gagliardi says when it comes to EFCA, there can be none ... 'EFCA is a ‘solution’ in search of a problem.'" See more at <http://www.examiner.com/x-16299-Denver-Business-Commentary-Examiner~y2009m9d2-Small-business-owners-could-be-wiped-out-by-proposed-union-legislation>