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Support the Employee Free Choice Act
The House passed an historic revision to labor law in February. The Senate will take up this important bill in the next two months
"Today the procedures for forming a union and bargaining for better wages and benefits are stacked against the workers. The Employee Free Choice Act is very simple. It says that if a majority of workers in a workplace sign authorization cards in support of a union, they get a union. That's it."
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1 . Employee Free Choice Act (Introduced in House)[H.R.800.IH]a
2 . Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 (Reported in House)[H.R.800.RH]
3 . Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)[H.R.800.EH]
4 . Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)[H.R.800.PCS]
Senate Introduces Employee Free Choice Act
. Momentum continues for the Employee Free Choice Act! On Thursday, March 29, Sen. Edward Kennedy introduced the legislation – S. 1041 – in the Senate. We now move toward building a majority of support in the Senate for this critical bill.1st Senate Hearing Held on Legislation to Protect Workers & Strengthen Middle Class. On Tuesday, March 27, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held the Senate’s first hearing on the Employee Free Choice Act. Testifiers included New York University Professor of Law Cynthia Estlund, Economic Policy Institute President Lawrence Mishel, and Errol Hohrein, who was fired for trying to form a union in his workplace. As a result of his experience, Hohrein proclaimed "Labor law in this country is broken, it doesn’t support working people. We’re on the brink and no one’s looking out for us. It’s time for the government to do the right thing and pass the Employee Free Choice Act." Watch the webcast of the hearing.
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Who's Afraid of the Employee Free Choice Act? The Employee Free Choice Act is one of the most important pieces of legislation being considered by the new Congress, yet many people have probably never ...
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America’s working people are struggling to make ends meet and our middle class is disappearing.
The best opportunity working people have to get ahead economically is by uniting to bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits. But the current system for forming unions and bargaining is broken. Every day, corporations deny workers the freedom to decide for themselves whether to form unions to bargain for a better life. They routinely intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers who try to form unions and bargain for economic well-being. The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800, S. 1041), supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would level the playing field for workers and employers and help rebuild America’s middle class. It would restore workers’ freedom to choose a union 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.
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