Since there seems to be serious disagreement over whether NLRB secret ballot elections are effective in determining employees' true preference on unionization, and since there are reasons to doubt some of the  statistics being cited by EFCA proponents, perhaps Congress could go straight to the source and ask the people who have voted in those elections whether they felt coerced and whether the secret ballot election was the best way to decide the issue.

In 2005 (the last full year for which the NLRB has published statistics), the NLRB conducted 2,649 representation elections involving some 146,822 employee voters.  (2005 NLRB Annual Report, p. 2).  Presumably, there were similar numbers in 2006.  Of course, the NLRB knows exactly who those voters were, as the agency requires an employer to provide a list of the names and home addresses of eligible voters.  If Congress were really concerned about protecting workers' free choice, couldn't it simply contact those workers via telephone or mail and take a simple survey?  Why just rely on a few anecdotal stories or on statisitcs cited by self-interested parties?