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The Employee Free Choice Act made it to the House last evening.
If passed, the Employee Free Choice Act would make the process of choosing a union more fair by:
- Establishing stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union and during first-contract negotiations.
- Providing mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes.
- Allowing employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.
Some 60 million U.S. workers say they would join a union if they could, based on research conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates in December 2006. But when workers try to gain a voice on the job by forming a union, employers routinely respond with intimidation, harassment and retaliation.A poll conducted in December by Hart Research showed a strong majority of the public—65 percent—approves of unions, up from 55 percent in 1981. But that same poll, taken for us at the AFL-CIO, also showed that nearly one-third of the public does not realize how hard management fights workers who seek to form unions.In fact:
- 51 percent of private-sector employees threaten to shut down partially or totally if the union wins the election.
- 25 percent of private-sector employers fire at least one worker during organizing campaigns.
- Co-Sponsors of the bill
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It is about time that someone began putting these low-paying companies in their place! This bill has 230 co-sponsors so check out the list to see if your rep. is on it. If not, tell them that they should be. It would be in their best interest.
