Some 57 million U.S. workers say they would join a union if they could. But when workers try to gain a union voice on the job, employers respond with intimidation, harassment and retaliation. And our labor laws are too weak to stop them.

Your U.S. representative is not among the 201 who have taken a strong stand to restore workers’ freedom to form unions by co-sponsoring the Employee Free Choice Act. This measure would ensure that when a majority of employees in a workplace decide to form a union, they can do so without the debilitating obstacles employers now use to block their free choice.

Workers need our elected officials to fight for workers’ rights by co-sponsoring the Employee Free Choice Act. Failing to support the act sends a strong message to employers and workers—that ruthless employers can continue to block workers’ basic rights with campaigns of intimidation, coercion, harassment and even firings.

Please use this Labor Day season to send the following message now urging your U.S. representative to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act.


Summary of Employee Free Choice Act

1. Certification on the Basis of Signed Authorizations
Provides for certification of a union as the bargaining representative if the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finds that a majority of employees in an appropriate unit has signed authorizations designating the union as its bargaining representative. Requires the board to develop model authorization language and procedures for establishing the authenticity of signed authorizations.

2. First-Contract Mediation and Arbitration
Provides that if an employer and a union are engaged in bargaining for their first contract and are unable to reach agreement within 90 days, either party may refer the dispute to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) for mediation. If the FMCS has been unable to bring the parties to agreement after 30 days of mediation, the dispute will be referred to arbitration and the results of the arbitration shall be binding on the parties for two years. Time limits may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties.

3. Stronger Penalties for Violations While Employees Are Attempting to Organize or Obtain a First Contract
Makes the following new provisions applicable to violations of the National Labor Relations Act committed by employers against employees during any period while employees are attempting to organize a union or negotiate a first contract with the employer:

a. Mandatory Injunctions: Provides that just as the NLRB is required to seek a federal court injunction against a union whenever there is reasonable cause to believe the union has violated the secondary boycott prohibitions in the act, the NLRB must seek a federal court injunction against an employer whenever there is reasonable cause to believe the employer has discharged or discriminated against employees, threatened to discharge or discriminate against employees or engaged in conduct that significantly interferes with employee rights during an organizing or first-contract drive. Authorizes the courts to grant temporary restraining orders or other appropriate injunctive relief.

b. Treble Back Pay: Increases the amount an employer is required to pay when an employee is discharged or discriminated against during an organizing campaign or first-contract drive to three times back pay.

c. Civil Penalties: Provides for civil fines of up to $20,000 per violation against employers found to have willfully or repeatedly violated employees’ rights during an organizing campaign or first-contract drive.

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/Support_EFCA

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Baloney. Unions are not strong in this country anymore....because they aren't needed. People get a better deal without them. That's why the membership has gone down and nobody wants to join.

Any intimidation is done by the surviving Union leaders.

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if the working person is getting such a good deal from the fire at will employer, then why do they even seek Union representation and why do those benevolent employers, such as wal wart, fight so hard to keep the Unions out?
however, i do agree with this statement:
but the reasons include the demise of the manufacturing industry, where unions were most established, laws established to prohibit governmental entities from negotiating with unions, and during this pro-big business paid for neocon regime, union busting behavior at every possible instance.

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Your grandchildren will have to struggle to secure the same rights that your granparents fought for, and won.....and you gave away.

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And yet ...

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1685

Maybe they heard of this site, telling them the truth about unions...

National Right-to-Work Link

Or maybe they visited this U.S. Government site on the crimes committed by labor officials against their own members....

Criminal Actions Link

Unions are ongoing criminal enterprises, stealing wages from employers and consumers alike. You can not look at any U.S. made (UAW-made) crap-on-wheels automobile and tell me we deserve to be #1 against the foreign competition.

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Paying union dues out of your
$5.15 per hr min wage job. I
wonder if they have unions in
China? where all the crap we
buy at Wal-Mart comes from.

I hope this Employee Free Choice Act passes. It will definitely help the US get its labour standards up to par.

Its almost a joke to hear of all the Americans without health insurance, a problem which could easily be helped with more unions. I would hate to be a blue collar worker in the US, getting hardly any vacation days, getting payed sqwat for a hard days work, having limited job security. The government doesen't even increase the minimum wage, how sad is that.

No wonder 57 million workers want more unions, so would I if I were getting screwed by big business everyday.

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I would like to be a union supporter.
Sadly they are too cozy with the Dem's who control them completely.

I work for a company who has a union, and I am lucky not to be effected by the union BS.

I see the reletively unskilled persons who whine and cry about how bad they are treated by "The Company" when in truth if they found themselves
unemployed for any reason they would have nearly no marketable skills to fall back on. I see them sitting on their butts doing next to nothing in terms of productivity, and are a kind of poison to morale.
There is no way to get rid of this deadwood either.

The other aspect that keeps me away from unions is the corruption.
What has the unions done to prevent the exportation of American jobs?

I see nothing. Yet they are in lockstep with the Dem's, who value the importation of legal, and illegal immigrants to take more jobs.

When they begin to really join with American workers to fight for American
jobs, I will begin to take them serious. Not until.

You are so full of it. I wouldnt get paid 1/2 of what I get paid doing what I do if I didnt have a union. What I do cannot be outsourced (contruction). If the contruction industry wasnt unionized, I can guarantee you that work quality would be half as well. Whenever you hear of contruction accidents, who is involved? non-union, cheap labor (illegal immigrants)
And you cant tell me that I dont deserve what I get paid. Its hard enough as it is living on Long Island if you didnt buy your house before the boom 10 years ago. Shouldnt a hard working man be able to buy a house and raise a family?