Pass Employee Free Choice Act
Published: July 3, 2009
Updated: July 6, 2009
Those lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act intentionally confuse what workers face in union elections with how we vote in civic elections. This deceptive tactic can work because most people have never been through an organizing campaign and therefore assume it’s just like voting for president. They assume both sides have ample opportunity (resources, time, access, etc.) to make their case and neither party has undue control over the process.
This is simply not true.
To complete the analogy, the company gets to decide when and where the election takes place, forces workers to attend their campaign rallies, requires their opponent to campaign from outside the district, and routinely fires people for supporting the other candidate.
Also, to ignore the economic power that companies have over their workers’ livelihoods is absurd. A 25-year-old union organizer doesn’t set hours or pay, nor do they determine working conditions or who gets promoted or transferred, hired and fired.
It’s time to put a stop to fix this process and pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
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No hyp says “too many things wrong” with the bill, but he doesn’t even provide a hint about what they are. Then goes off on a tangent on health care and the census. Lets keep on task NH.
Virginia’s Right to Work status is fine. Too many issues with the subject bill I’m not comfortable with. Heck, at the rate things are going under our current administration, it won’t matter because the government will own and run everything - there won’t be free choice for more than just medical care. Wait until you see the census questions and the threatened fine if you don’t answer the questions. And ACORN is part of the census gathering….how scary is that!?
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