Support the Employee Free Choice Act: Sign the Online Card Today

With your help, our unions will present the new president and Congress with 1 million signatures urging them to enact the Employee Free Choice Act. Add your name today.

The Employee Free Choice Act will:

1. Strengthen penalties against companies that coerce or intimidate employees trying to form unions and bargain;

2. Establish mediation and binding arbitration when the employer and workers cannot agree on a first contract; and

3. Enable employees to form unions when a majority signs authorization cards.

Sign the Online Card to help us reach our goal: 1 million signatures urging the new president and Congress to enact the Employee Free Choice Act.

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: I Support the Employee Free Choice Act

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I urge you to enact the Employee Free Choice Act immediately.

This crucial legislation will protect workers' freedom to choose a union and bargain--without management intimidation.

Allowing more workers to freely join unions and bargain with their employers will help rebuild the middle class by expanding health care, improving retirement security and raising the standard of living for America's working families.

My bargaining rights are worth working for and voting for.

Signed by:

Campaign Launched:
March 05, 2008


Background Information

Union members know the best way for working families to get ahead is by bargaining collectively and gaining a union contract. Union members earn better wages, get better benefits and have better working conditions. We also have a real voice on the job, and the strength of millions of brothers and sisters gives us a powerful voice in the community and the nation.

But the system for forming unions and bargaining for a better life is broken. It has been perverted by employers who use it to intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers who want to join together with their colleagues for a better deal. A fair deal.

The Employee Free Choice Act will restore a level playing field for workers. It will strengthen the penalties against companies that block workers’ freedom to choose for ourselves whether to form unions and bargain. It will bring in mediation and arbitration when employees and employers cannot reach a first contract. And it will allow working people to form unions when a majority signs authorization cards—without the conflict, disruption and intimidation employers routinely inflict on us now.