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Campaign Unavailable We're sorry, this alert is no longer available. If you would like to learn more about ways you can take action, please visit Working Families e-Activist Network.The short explanation of this alert was: America's middle class is disappearing, good jobs are vanishing and health care coverage and retirement security are slipping out of reach. To get ahead economically, working people need the freedom to choose for ourselves whether to join together in unions to bargain for better wages and benefits. But the current system for forming unions and bargaining is broken. Corporations routinely intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers for trying. The Employee Free Choice Act would change that by restoring workers' freedom to form unions and bargain—without management interference. The legislation would strengthen penalties for companies that coerce or intimidate workers, establish mediation and binding arbitration when the employer and workers cannot agree on a first contract and enable workers to form unions when a majority signs union authorization cards. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Employee Free Choice Act. Now we have to convince the Senate to do the same. Your senator has not yet signed on as co-sponsors for this year’s legislation. There’s still time. Please use the form below to urge your senator to co-sponsor the Employee Free Choice Act. Please customize the message with your own thoughts and comments. If you would like to view details on this alert, please visit here. |