Senate Hears Testimony on Employee Free Choice Act

Witnesses testified March 27, 2007 before the Senate Committee on Heath, Education, Labor and Pensions on the need for the Employee Free Choice Act.



Machinists News Network - Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is a piece of legislation for the middle class that limits an employer's ability to prevent workers from forming unions. If passed it could ultimately improve the lives of working men and women across the nation.



Rep. Sutton - The Employee Free Choice Act

To help ease the economic squeeze on America's middle class families, Democratic lawmakers have introduced the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800), a bill with 234 cosponsors that would help workers join together to bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. Union workers earn 30 percent more, on average, than do nonunion workers, and union workers are much more likely to have healthcare, pensions and more generous paid time off.

The Employee Free Choice Act

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.

Employee Free Choice Act - Boston
A Press conference was held on Friday February 23, 2007 at the Teamsters Local 25 home in Charlestown MA. Speaking in support of the Employee Free Choice Act were Rich Rogers (Boston CLC), Sean O'Brien (Teamsters 25) Bill Gardner (FedEx Driver) Myles Calvey (IBEW 2222), Bob Haynes (MA. AFL/CIO), Congressman Stephen Lynch, Congressman Ed Markey



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.

Read the text of the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800).
Download a summary of the bill (PDF).

EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT SPEECH LONG ISLAND
PRESS CONFERENCE HELD WITH CONGRESSMAN STEVE ISRAEL AT CSEA, COMMACK,NY 2-22-07 FOR THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT

Solis Supports Employee Free Choice Act of 2007
Congresswoman Hilda Solis stands up for working families and speaks in support of the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 on the House floor.

Employee Free Choice Act Press Conference, 02/28/07
Errol Hohrein says Congress should do the right thing and pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

Employee Free Choice Act Hearing, 02/08/07
Teresa Joyce testifies at a hearing on "Strengthening America's Middle Class Through the Employee Free Choice Act."

Employee Free Choice Act Press Conference, 2/6/07
Bill Lawhorn and several co-workers were illegally fired for trying to form a union at Consolidated Biscuit Company

Nancy Wohlforth Speaks About The Employee Free Choice Act
OPEIU Secretary-Treasurer, Pride At Work Co-President, and US Labor Against The War Co-Convenor, Nancy Wohlforth speaks out in favor of the Employee Free Choice Act.

Ivo Camilo On the Importance of the Employee Free Choice Act
Ivo Camilo is a machine operator at Diamond Walnut who was fired to attempting to organize a union.

Congresswoman Yvette Clarke asks him to discuss the importance of the Employee Free Choice Act for today's workforce.

Ivo Camilo was fired after trying to form a union at Blue Diamond Growers.