American Sociological Association Supports Employee Free Choice

by Seth Michaels, Aug 21, 2009

Another group of leading scholars has added its name to the coalition in support of the Employee Free Choice Act. At its August meeting, the American Sociological Association (ASA) adopted a resolution asking that Congress protect workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain by passing the Employee Free Choice Act.

The ASA resolution, representing the consensus of the ASA’s 14,000 members, declares the freedom to form unions must be guaranteed by law. The statement reads, in part:

When employers violate the right of workers to form a union, everyone suffers; wages fall, race and gender pay gaps widen, workplace discrimination increases and job safety standards disappear….

We urge Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act to help rebuild the middle class and invigorate an ailing economy by protecting America’s employees’ freedom to choose for themselves whether or not to form a union and provide them with the opportunity to improve their economic situation.

The coalition supporting the Employee Free Choice Act includes a wide array of academic support, such as hundreds of leading economists—several of whom are Nobel Prize winners—hundreds of historians and business professors and more than 1,000 professors and experts across a wide variety of disciplines and institutions, as well as scholars from the United Kingdom and Canada. They join civil rights groups, environmentalists, faith groups and more in demanding the passage of new labor law that restores a workers’ freedom to bargain.

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