‘Card Check’ Will Cost African Americans Jobs, Black Chamber of Commerce Says

Thursday, February 26, 2009
By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer

Harry C. Alford, president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (Photo courtesy of National Black Chamber of Congress)

(CNSNews.com) – If the Employees Free Choice Act (EFCA) is passed by Congress later this year, it could cost members of the African American community their jobs, members of a panel hosted by the National Black Chamber of Congress (NBCC) at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., said on Tuesday.

The EFCA, or “card check,â€