At the February 14, mark-up of H.R. 800, the Employee Free Choice Act, the House Committee on Education and Labor, voting on strict party lines,  rejected some 13 proposed amendments and approved the Bill with no substantive amendments. Among other things, those amendments would have:

• Required a union to demonstrate that any card presented in a card check campaign for union representation be signed only by a U.S. citizen or legal immigrant;
• Allowed employees to conduct a the same type of card check campaign to decertify union representation as the Bill permits for the original certification;
• that an authorization card, in a card check, is not deemed valid unless signed in the presence of a National Labor Relations Board representative;
• Permitted an employee to put himself or herself on a “do not contact” list to avoid in-person union solicitation during card check campaigns;  
• Ensured that no employee can be forced to join a union or pay union dues or agency fees against their will;  
• Provided that union officials may not commence a strike unless union members vote on management’s last, best offer;  
• Barred the National Labor Relations Board from reinstating any employee who has engaged in violent or coercive actions and directed the Board to revoke the exclusive bargaining status of any labor union found to engage in the use of violent or coercive actions; 
• Made it an unfair labor practice to fail to return a previously-signed union authorization card within five days of an employee’s request; and   
• Protected the right of union members to vote on a contract with management by eliminating mandatory arbitration requirements in the card check bill.