Video: Here’s How Labor Law Is Failing Workers
As the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act heats up, the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF) is helping clarify the issues involved with a new video, “How Not to Form a Union.” The animated clip gives a real-world explanation of how the process for forming a union works and how badly the deck is stacked against workers who want the chance to bargain for a better life.
The video elaborates on some of the serious flaws in the process that the Employee Free Choice Act would rectify:
- Workers are required to gather signatures to begin the process, but after that, management is in charge of deciding how to proceed, even when a majority of employees want a union.
- Management controls the ballot election process, and workers are subject to abuses at the hands of the people who control their pay and their schedules.
