She compared the American system of free ballots to the check card system in Canada. where she also worked as a union organizer. noting "my experience is that in jurisdictions in which card check was actually legislated. organizers tend[ed] to he even more willing to harass. lie. and use fear tactics to intimidate workers into signing cards." She also noted that "at no point during a card check campaign is the opportunity created or fostered for employees to seriously consider their working lives and to think about possible solutions to any problems." At that same hearing before the House Committee on Labor. Education and Pensions. a former union organizer. Ricardo Torres. testified that he resigned because of "the ugly methods that we were encouraged to use to pressure employees into union ranks." He testified that "I ultimately quit this line of work when a senior Steelworkers union official asked me to threaten migrant workers by telling them they would be reported to federal immigration officials if they refused to sign checkoff cards during a Tennessee organizing drive . . . .Visits to the homes of employees who didnt support the union were used to frustrate them and put them in fear of what might happen to them. their family. or homes if they didnt change their minds about the union." Enactment of the LandrumGriffin Act in 1959 followed extensive Senate hearings by the McClellan Committee on union abuses. Based on evidence compiled by that Committee. where Senator John F. Kennedy was a member and Robert F.
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