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Tell Congress to Pass Employee Free Choice Act
It’s Time to Restore Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions
For too long, employers have broken the law and stood in the way of employees who have chosen to join a union to improve their lives. Every day employers intimidate, threaten, and illegally fire workers who want to join a union. The Bush Administration and Republican Congress stood by and did nothing.
Click the "Tell me more" link below if you would like more information about the Employee Free Choice Act.
The full House will vote on this important piece of legislation this Thursday so act now and send the letter below to your congressperson!
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Subject: Employee Free Choice Act
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
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.
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), supported by a bipartisan coalition 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.
Sincerely,
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