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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. 
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Employee Free Choice Act builds the middle class
By Brain Labor Report  The occasion for this video interview with Stewart Acuff: 150 folks were gathered in Roseburg, Oregon on May 4, 2007 to support the nurses who work at Mercy Hospital. Over a year ago the Mercy Nurses voted overwhelmingly to form a union ...
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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/

Momentum for Employee Free Choice Act Continues to Grow

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. 
See how your senators voted, click here.

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.
 
Portland Community College: Committee on Political Education: About Free Choice
"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 RightsDavid Moberg | Workers have lost the right to organize.
A new effort aims to get it back. SUBSCRIBERS ONLY "I didn't expect the company to treat us like animals."

H.R.800 - Card-check bill   www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h800/show
To amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes. see videos of workers like Ivo Camilo, Nikkia Parish and Bill Lawhorn at the AFL-CIO’s Employee Free Choice Act website: http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca

"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."
www.democrats.org/a/2007/02/employee_free_c_1.php
1 . Employee Free Choice Act (Introduced in House)[H.R.800.IH]
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 ...
www.commondreams.org/views07/0301-24.htm

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.
Barack Obama stands with workers: He says "Make Employee Free Choice Act the Law of the Land"

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 ...
www.unionvoice.org/campaign/Support_EFCA

Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA): Change to Win   www.changetowin.org/.../workers-rights/freedom-to-form-a-union/employee-free-choice-act-efca.html

Daily Blog: Employee Free Choice Act  workinglife.typepad.com/daily_blog/2007/02/employee_free_c.html

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