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This past week, students across the country mobilized to pass the Employee Free Choice Act in the Student Labor Action Project’s annual Student Labor Week of Action.
The Week of Action commemorates the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez and their efforts on behalf of dignity and justice for workers. Student organizations taking part included United Students Against Sweatshops and the United States Student Association.
In 28 states and the District of Columbia, hundreds of students from dozens of campuses held rallies, community service days, petition drives, educational forums and other public events to promote workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain and to mobilize for a fair economy.
In Chicago, students protested outside the local Chamber of Commerce asking them to stop the disinformation campaign against Employee Free Choice. In Orlando, students from the University of Central Florida rallied to protest corporate anti-Employee Free Choice Act training. The AFL-CIO’s Stewart Acuff joined students at Colorado University’s Boulder campus for a town hall meeting on Employee Free Choice. From Maine to Los Angeles, students got the word out about the need to protect workers’ freedom to form unions.
In addition to backing the Employee Free Choice Act, these student actions promoted social justice locally, including advocating for fair wages and working conditions for workers on campus. And Jobs with Justice (JwJ) built on the student efforts with a national “Resistance and Recovery” week of action to keep the momentum going forward in support of the freedom to form unions and an economy that works for everyone.
These students are part of the broad coalition of community groups that are mobilizing in support of passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
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Well meaning and misguided.
EFCA is dead for now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-shapiro/card-check-dilemma-how-ca_b_184088.html
I see your article in the Huffington Post is earning rave reviews. So far, yours is about the only comment supportive of your own piece (of you know what)! I’m especially impressed by the lack of credibly sourced research data included in it. Brilliant idea…just pull information out of your rear end and pass it off as fact. This is certainly the stuff worthy of the Roger Eugene Ailes award!
Just one point of order: If EFCA were as dead as you claim; then, why would you still be writing about it? Anything that keeps EFCA alive is a feather in my hat. Keep it up!!!
Let the lies roll on. The tide will eventually turn.
Kudos for the students mentioned in this article. Keep it up guys! One day, you, too, may discover a realistic opportunity to achieve the American dream.
Gary Shapiro:
Have you even read the EFCA legislation?
Do you even know the percentage of workers who have already formed their unions via card-check and neutrality/card checks agreements in 2007 and 2008?
Its not over yet because the business community–yourself included–wouldn’t be lobbying so hard against it.
EFCA might be technicallly OK. But any organizer (even those mediocre) knows that in practice they say a bunch of lies and deceive to have the workers sign the card.
Now, the intervention of a mediator is what I find worst and legally challengable. Anyway, EFCA is a very dangerous legislation for the future of the free enterprise.
Hey Union fanatics…Watch What You Wish For
JPecas-If you are going to call union organizers liars you should be specific about what those lies are. I have read many posts here that are specific in name and quotation about the lies business leaders and politicians use to denigrate EFCA. Like GaryShapiro you are probably just making it all up. As for the future of “free enterprise” people on the “smaller government/lower taxes” side got 8 years and more of what they wished for and look at the mess that got us into.