Why Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act

The EFCA would also bring back the process for forming unions used in the years after the labor act was first passed (and used today in Canada). Workers would be able to sign union cards, and employers would have to recognize their union if a majority signed.

Today, employers demand secret ballot elections, and then wage an anti-union fear campaign that peaks on election day. At Blue Diamond in Sacramento, for instance, the company told ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 13, 2009

Bacon lays out a cogent argument for the EFCA. Pro-labor opinion is notably scarce in the big corporate media.

It is a new piece of information that Canada uses card check. The 1934 history was before my time, but learning it may help prevent repeating it.

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