It’s Time to Restore Workers’ Freedom to Form
Unions
America’s working people are
struggling to make ends meet these days and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity working people have to
get ahead economically is by uniting to bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits. Recent research has shown
that some 60 million U.S. workers would join a union if they could.
But the current system for forming
unions and bargaining is broken. Every day, corporations deny workers the freedom to decide for themselves whether to form
unions to bargain for a better life. They routinely intimidate, harass, coerce
and even fire workers who try to form unions and bargain for economic well-being.
The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800, S. 1041), supported by a in Congress, would level the playing
field for workers and employers and help rebuild America’s middle class.
It would restore workers’ freedom to choose a union by:
- Establishing stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union
and during first-contract negotiations.
- Providing mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes.
- Allowing employees to form
unions by signing cards authorizing union representation
