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With workers having fewer rights on the job, the Employee Free Choice Act is critical for working people, AFL-CIO Legislation Director William Samuel says in a new video posted on The Hill Blog.
The U.S. House passed the Employee Free Choice Act on March 1. The bill, S. 1041, is now in the U.S. Senate. If enacted, the Employee Free Choice Act would enable workers to decide to join a union by majority sign-up, or card-check, when an employer agrees to recognize the union if a majority of workers sign union authorization cards. This would curtail the harassment, intimidation and stalling that tens of thousands of workers encounter every year from their employers when they try to form unions and bargain for a better life.
Samuel attacks head-on opponents’ charges that the Employee Free Choice Act would deny workers the fairness of a secret election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. He points out that the secret ballot elections are not fair because employers bombard workers with anti-union propaganda. They also threaten, intimidate and even fire workers for supporting a union. Samuel compares these workplace ballots to the votes in the old Soviet bloc:
The elections were secret, but nobody would say they were free or fair. If the election is preceded by three months of harassment and firings, there’s nothing fair about it.
You can take action now to help workers make a free choice to join a union. Click here to urge your senators to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
To find out more about employers’ tactics when workers try to form a union, click here.
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