Spread the Word About The Employee Free Choice Act

• America's working people are struggling to make ends meet, and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity we have to get ahead economically is by uniting with co-workers to bargain with our employers for better wages, benefits and working conditions.
• More than half of U.S. workers - nearly 60 million - say they would join a union right now if they could.
• But the current system for forming unions and bargaining is broken. Every day, corporations intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire people who try to organize unions and bargain. This is an urgent crisis, blocking our free will and our ability to get ahead.
• The system has to be changed to give all working people the freedom to make our own choice about whether to have a union and bargain for better wages and benefits.
• The Employee Free Choice Act would restore workers freedom to form unions and bargain by (1) strengthening penalties for companies that coerce or intimidate employees,(2) establishing mediation and binding arbitration when the employer and workers cannot agree on a first contract and (3)enabling employees to form unions when a majority signs authorization cards.

Over the next several months the Executive Board of Local 13000 will be asking you for your support to help pass the Employee Free Choice Act by participating in mobilizations.

We are relying on the strength and solidarity of our members both active and retired to to achieve our goal of changing the labor laws to make forming a union easier for all working Americans. 

To learn more click the following links:

EFCA Bill Summary Bill #800

Official Website of Employee Free Choice Act

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