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Local Resolutions ‘Essential’ to Passing Employee Free Choice Act
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The U.S. Senate is set to take up the Employee Free Choice Act next month—and across the country, local elected officials in such locales as Miami-Dade County and Baltimore are adding their voices in support for the legislation.
Ed Yankovich, vice president of the Mine Workers, explains that it is “essential” for local legislative bodies to pass resolutions in favor of the act to help build a groundswell of support that will convince the Senate to pass the bill and President Bush to sign it (see video):
We’re going to face a fierce lobby by manufacturing associations and different trade groups representing employers who understand that if workers have a say, they can’t do whatever they want to do.
The U.S. House passed the landmark law in March. The bill is now in the Senate (S. 1041) and already has the backing of 36 state and local legislative bodies. Nearly 40 more resolutions of support are pending in such cities as Los Angeles and Buffalo, N.Y.
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The proposed “free choice” has the same objections as listed on your “secret ballot” site except the one difference in that the “free choice” would be the first step back to the abuses and union bossism that was broken up by the Kennedys and the secret ballot won. The congress should correct the abuses of the NLRB instead of going backwards to the shameful days of old.
“srpat” you must be in lala land. Congress is not going to correct anything. Their employer friends like things just the way they are, so they can intimidate and coerce their employees and file appeals that take years to settle, while the employer is able to fire without cause anyone involved in the union election. Would you ask some of your friendly Congressmen to support fixing the abuses? Please try that. I would be curious to see the response you get. That is all I am going to say since I have no idea who you are, but I would ask what you are doing on a union website with this attitude?
The explotation of workers must end. A small first step in the right direction would be to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. If we can’t for any of a variety of reasons we need to pass it at the state level like what was done with the minimum wage until it becomes a mandate. What was written by srpat displays an ignorance of the labor movement at best & a blatant attempt to sabatoge its passing at worst. The election process is flawed. Any other organization you can join at will & have a card, why not unions? It’s too much like right. We do need to correct the nlrb though. It is full of anti-union appointees that need to be removed. We also need to put some enforcement on the violations of corporations. The EFCA will help. Solidarity Forever!