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Honoring Military Vets Means Fixing the Economy—Employee Free Choice Does Just That |
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As pundits and policymakers debate the Employee Free Choice Act, it’s worth remembering what this fight is really about: giving workers the freedom they deserve to bargain for a better life. In a new newspaper op-ed, Mike Allen explains why we need the Employee Free Choice Act and how it can ensure workers have the tools they need to bargain for a better life.
Allen, a U.S. Air Force veteran and member of the Letter Carriers (NALC), writes in the Bangor Daily News that the freedom to form a union gives returning veterans and all workers the chance they deserve to bargain for a better life and join the middle class.
Working hard used to give everyone a chance to improve their lives, but working families really have it rough right now.
The news for veterans is not any better. One out of five veterans who recently returned from tours of duty remains unemployed. One out of four veterans finding a job since leaving the service earns less than $21,840 a year.
Honoring the brave men and women who serve our country starts with fighting for an economy that works for everyone. They should have the same opportunities I have had. It is no surprise that the decline of the middle class can be linked to the decline of unions in America. One solution to making sure workers can level the playing field is by giving them the opportunity to collectively bargain for fair wages and benefits. If we continue down the path we have followed for the past 30 years, the middle class will quickly disappear.
I support the Employee Free Choice Act because if enacted, it would let workers form a union when a simple majority of workers in the workplace sign cards indicating they want one instead of going through a company-controlled process.
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Memorial Day is the day we honor those soldiers who lost their lives fighting for this country. Fighting for freedom and liberty. Our freedom and liberty is being taken away by big government and more taxes.
Veterans Day is when we honor all our soldiers serving in the military past and present.
Neither one of these holidays has anything to do with the EFCA.
Freedom and liberty means small government and free markets not bailouts and government control of banks, auto makers or newspapers. If labor cannot stand on it’s own merits than it should die on the vine just like the banks, auto makers and newspapers.
Its much more then EFCA, fact of the matter is American employers, and our own govt. don’t want American workers. I believe they hold us in contempt.
Why else would they keep giveing out 138,000 plus work visa’s a month to foreign workers. not just now during this time of very high unemployment, but any time. And lets not forget unchecked illegal immigration.
I have recently put this same question to my congressman, I know I’m gonna get a lot of double talk for an answer, but the ? still needed to be asked.