Reply #9: They still need to get a contract [View All]

[pberq]

Folks, while this is fabulous news, there is no guarantee they will get a contract.

Under current law, the employer can stall negotiations for a year and then try to get a decertification vote.

We need the Employee Free Choice Act to rectify this problem.

Please sign the online petition at:

http://www.freechoiceact.org/page/s/aflcio?source=aflcioweb


For information on the Employee Free Choice Act, see:

http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/10keyfacts.cfm

http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/brokensystem.cfm

http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/

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. Recent research has shown that some 60 million U.S. workers would join a union if they could.



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.



The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800, S. 1041), 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.