Rural Economies Need Employee Free Choice

by Seth Michaels, Jul 1, 2009

In a great new op-ed in Minnesota’s Bemidji Pioneer, Richard Levins, a professor emeritus of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, says the Employee Free Choice Act gives workers in rural economies the ability to bargain for a better life and restore the economy in their communities. 

He says the race to the bottom in wages isn’t working anymore for our economy and calls the Employee Free Choice Act a “much-needed stimulus” for rural economies. 

Levins writes: 

Corporate opponents of the act know that when workers do the same job for less, the rich get richer at everyone else’s expense. Supporters of the act know that healthy rural economies need middle class wages. Stronger labor unions will help get us there. 

Read the whole thing here.

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