Employee Free Choice: Snippets from Op-Eds Around the Nation
Here are a few highlights from newspapers around the country that make the case for why we need the Employee Free Choice Act.
In Maine, Bill Murphy, director of the University of Maine’s Labor Education Program, writes a great op-ed in the Bangor Daily News explaining how our current labor laws are broken and how the Employee Free Choice Act can fix the system for workers:
The central legal principle of the National Labor Relations Act, or NLRA, is to provide workers in the private sector with the democratic right to organize unions in the workplace…. However, for large numbers of workers, the rights established under this law no longer exist, because of willful employer violations and a lack of adequate statutory enforcement.
For all too many workers, the right to obtain justice on the job through unionization has been either denied or delayed. Enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act will enable workers and their organizations to remedy this injustice.
Workers in Colorado, Arkansas Advance the Fight for Employee Free Choice
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In Colorado, Arkansas and key states around the country, the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act continued over the past week, as grassroots activists got the chance to make the case to elected leaders in support of the freedom to form unions and bargain.
In Colorado, newly appointed Sen. Michael Bennet held a town hall meeting at Washington Park Church of Christ in Denver, part of a statewide tour to discuss the economy. The Rev. Daniel Klawitter, a member of Colorado Interfaith Worker Justice, presented Bennet with 300 letters from religious leaders and workers around the state asking him to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
The AFL-CIO’s Don Slaiman reports that Bennet took a question from him about the Employee Free Choice Act, an issue that Bennet said had been coming up around the state. While he says he’s still studying the issue, Bennet acknowledged that the decline in worker power and the failure of wages to keep up with productivity has hurt the economy. Slaiman, Klawitter and other attendees got a chance to explain to Bennett why they support the Employee Free Choice Act.
