A Voice At Work
The right to form a union is one of the most basic rights that workers are entitled to, but this freedom remains under constant attack from a great many employers and political enemies. Over 60 million workers have indicated they wish to join a union, but workers who try to exercise this right to organize face discouraging obstacles such as illegal harassment, intimidation, unjust penalties and firings. The United Steelworkers remains committed to protecting an employee’s right to organize and to work toward having the Employee Free Choice Act passed in Congress.
- Prominent Economists Support the Employee Free Choice Act As of the end of May, 230 economists have signed a statement in support for the Employee Free Choice Act, a critical bill to restore economic balance for U.S. workers.
- Workers Stating Why We Need the Employee Free Choice Act A collection of statements from workers in various industries answering the question, "Why do we need the Employee Free Choice Act?"
- USW Rapid Response: Leading the Way on the Employee Free Choice Act! The Employee Free Choice Act is at a critical point. The following is an update for USW activists.
- New Five-Year Study Shows Employers’ Anti-Union Behavior Intensifies A new study by renowned labor expert and Cornell University professor Kate Bronfenbrenner reveals that private sector employer opposition to workers’ efforts to form unions has intensified and become more punitive than in the past. Employers are more than twice as likely to use 10 or more tactics – including threats of and actual firings
- Artists4WorkerChoice Support EFCA with a Video Forty-seven artists. Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winners and nominees. Sitcom stars, character actors, musicians, comedians and Broadway performers. All union members. All support the Employee Free Choice Act and say so in this powerful new video. "This isn't a red state issue or a blue state issue — it's a worker's issue," they say.
- Workers Stating Why We Need the Employee Free Choice Act A collection of statements from workers in various industries answering the question, "Why do we need the Employee Free Choice Act."
- Local 752L Continues the Fight for Employee Free Choice Act Members of LU 752L spent a day in mid-April hand billing over 600 members coming off swing shift and day shift outside of Cooper Tire plant. The handbills asked members to call and write Senators, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and ask them to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
- Wall Street Chooses Greed over Workers, Employee Free Choice Act Greeted with a new massive nationwide ad campaign along with over 350 grassroots actions, members of Congress returned to their home states and districts this week to be reminded that a majority of the public demands passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
- Nationwide Ad and Grassroots Actions Intensify Campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act The grassroots activity planned for the recess includes rallies, leafleting, lobbying, town hall meetings, moving billboards, community forums, vigils, call-in days, and more. Workers, elected officials, students, civil rights leaders, and other advocates, will participate in an array of actions underscoring the broad and diverse support for the measure.
- Rachel Maddow Explains the Employee Free Choice Act On her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow gives an overview of the Employee Free Choice Act and fact-checks the opposition's main argument against the legislation.
- An Employee Free Choice TEACH-IN at IUN Indiana University Northwest is planning to hold a TEACH-IN on Employee Free Choice Act and what it means for workers and the U.S. Economy. It will held at Indiana University Northwest campus, Library Conference Center on April 30, 2009 from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
- USW Local 2599 Pushing for Support of Employee Free Choice Act On Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Rapid Response Congressional Coordinator Jerry Green and members from Local 2599 attempted to deliver over 1,000 hand-written letters to Senator Specter at the Senator’s Allentown District Office asking the Senator to co-sponsor and support the Employee Free Choice Act.
- USW Members and Supporters Highlight the Need for Employee Free Choice On February 14, the day after the Economic Recovery and Jobs Bill passed both houses of Congress, union members, retirees, veterans and citizens living near Warsaw, Indiana paraded in the streets to highlight the need for the Employee Free Choice Act.
- Hope & Change - National Ad for the Employee Free Choice Act What is the Employee Free Choice Act really about? American Rights at Work launched the Hope & Change ad to show the workers behind the legislation and the people for who this fight is for.
- We Don't Ask - National Ad for the Employee Free Choice Act What is the Employee Free Choice Act really about? American Rights at Work launched the We Don't Ask ad to show the workers behind the legislation and the people for who this fight is for.
- New Hart Research Shows Overwhelming Support for Employee Free Choice Act Nearly four in five adults (78 percent) favor legislation that “makes it easier for workers to bargain with their employers for better wages, benefits and working conditions,” according to new opinion research conducted by one of the country’s most respected polling firms, and 73 percent specifically support the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would give workers the freedom to bargain collectively for a better life.
- What is the Employee Free Choice Act? The Employee Free Choice Act, supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress and Senate, would enable working people to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions by restoring workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union.
- Why Does America Need The Employee Free Choice Act? America’s working people are stretched as never before. Wages are dropping, health care costs are rising and pensions are disappearing. For the first time in generations, people are very worried that their children will be worse off than they are.
- Do Workers Still Want Unions? In the mid-1990s, the Worker Representation and Participation Survey (WRPS) of U.S. private sector workers documented a large gap between the kind and extent of workplace representation and participation that U.S. workers had and the kind they desired (Freeman and Rogers 1999 and 2006).
- 10 Key Facts of the Employee Free Choice Act America’s workers want to form unions. Research shows nearly 60 percent would form a union tomorrow if given the chance. Too few ever get that chance because employers routinely block their efforts to form unions—and our current legal system is too broken to stop them. As many as one-quarter of employers illegally fire workers who try to form unions.
- Free Choice Core Message to Members Under today’s broken laws, working people are powerless to bargain for better wages, while CEOs demand contracts for themselves and get golden parachutes for driving their companies into the ground.
- Get the Facts to the Response of Right-Wing Attacks The Employee Free Choice Act does NOT eliminate elections. We are supporting the Employee Free Choice Act because it gives working people the freedom to make their own decision about whether and how to form a union.
