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Here are two great op-eds on the continuing fight for the Employee Free Choice Act.
In North Carolina’s News & Observer, Arne Kalleberg, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, calls the Employee Free Choice Act an “effective tool” for workers to improve their own lives and communities.
The Employee Free Choice Act, Kalleberg says:
…would help to level the playing field by giving workers a real opportunity to decide whether or not they wish to be represented by a union. Studies by sociologists and economists have demonstrated conclusively that unions raise wages and benefits for working people and protect them from discrimination and unsafe workplaces.
It would provide some ballast to out-of-control business lobbying influence and it would help us to resume the long American march toward a more humane and democratic society. It protects America’s employees’ freedom to choose whether or not to form a union and provides them with the opportunity to improve their economic situation.
Writing in Montana’s Great Falls Tribune, Kimberly Freeman, acting executive director of American Rights at Work, says the Employee Free Choice Act will give workers the ability to bargain for a better life and balance the power of corporations:
This critical policy solution will make it easier for workers to form a union and bargain for fair pay and benefits, enact greater penalties against employers who violate the law, and prevent companies from using endless delays and stall tactics to deny workers a collective bargaining agreement. These policies are needed more than ever to level the playing field and create an economy that works for everyone again.
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What a load of crap!
The EFCA that is now being discussed has been watered-down to such a degress that it now derserves the moniker Employee-F___ing Chump Act.
We don’t need intellectuals telling us what is best for us. We voted for politicians who promised we’d get THE EFCA, and not some weak substitute.
Ah well, retreat as a strategy is being embraced by labor honchos and fair weather “friends” in Congress. No wonder we’re down to 12% labor density. If we don’t stand for something we’ll fall for anything. Thank God our forefatheras had some gumption!
I hate to say it but I agree with you. I personally think that we need to hold our so called allies to their word. We should not support politicians that do not support us. This seems like common since thing to do, I don’t know why we are not doing it!