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The right to organize is among the most fundamental
of workplace human rights. It is the
workplace expression of
the right to freedom of association. Employees are entitled to work
collectively on common issues. The right to organize is also the tool
which is used to create many other workplace rights. For example,
American workers are employed "at will" and can be fired without a
legitimate reason. Union members, however, can only be fired for "just
cause" because they have achieved this right through collective
bargaining. The National Workrights Institute 166 Wall Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 (609) 683 0313 info@workrights.org
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Support the Employee Free Choice Act — Jobs with Justice The Employee Free Choice Act is very simple. It says that if a majority of workers in a workplace sign, they are a union, supported by ActiveResource.org, Portland Jobs with Justice, and AFSCME Council 75 ... www.jwjpdx.org/jwjnews/news-item-1176490362.7/
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51 senators showed their support for working families by voting
in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act. The
vote shows who is standing with working families—and who is
standing with corporate America to block working people’s
bargaining power.
Please take a moment to thank those who supported the bill (S.
1041) and tell those who opposed it that working families will
remember how they blocked this critical legislation.
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The Employee Free Choice
Act
It’s Time to Restore
Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions The right to organize is among the most fundamental of workplace human rights. It is the workplace expression of freedom of association. Employees are entitled to work collectively on common issues. This tool is critical for securing other workplace rights. |
"Workers shouldn't have to fight so hard to form unions, and we can win this battle
- in Congress and in the workplace."
Labor Fights
for Rights: David
Moberg | Workers have lost the right to
organize.
A new effort aims to get it back.
"I didn't expect the company to treat us like animals."
A new effort aims to get it back.
"I didn't expect the company to treat us like animals."
www.democrats.org/a/2007/02/employee_free_c_1.php
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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Take Action: Help 60 million workers gain a union.
It's time for Congress to
support the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow
workers to make their own uncoerced decisions on whether or not
to form a ...
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Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA): Change to Win
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Free Choice Act
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