Monday, March 23, 2009

April Topic

What exactly does the Employee Free Choice Act propose?

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  1. The Employee Free Choice Act would enable working people to bargain for better benefits, wages and working conditions by restoring workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union. It would:

    Remove current obstacles to employees who want collective bargaining.
    Guarantee that workers who can choose collective bargaining are able to achieve a contract.
    Allow employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.

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  2. 1)The EFCA strengthens penalties against companies that illeagaly coerce or intimidate employees in an effort to prevent them from forming a union.

    2)It also brings in a neutral third party to settle a contract when a company and a certified union can't agree on a contract after three months.

    3)Plus it lets employees decide how to express their choice to organize, either by balloting,or majority sign up, meaning that if a majority of the employees sign union authorization cards, validated by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a company must recognize the union.

    What this is saying is that it is redoing the NLRA or the National Labor Relations Act which has failed over the past years because employers are forcing people through threats to vote against unions the ignoring the union if there is one in place.

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  3. The Employee Free Choice Act, supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would enable working people to bargain for better benefits, wages and working conditions by restoring workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union. It would:

    Remove current obstacles to employees who want collective bargaining.
    Guarantee that workers who can choose collective bargaining are able to achieve a contract.
    Allow employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.

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  4. The Employee Free Choice Act would enable working people to decide for better benefits, wages and working conditions by restoring workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union. It also remove current obstacles to employees who want collective decisions.It Guarantees that workers who can choose collective choices are able to achieve a contract. It also allows employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.

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  5. This evidence that I stated is from AFL-CIO America's Union Movement

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  6. **It opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.**

    H.R. 800, the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007, seeks to
    strengthen and expands the American middle class by restoring
    workers’ freedom to organize and collectively bargain under the
    National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The bill reforms the NLRA
    to provide for union certification through simple majority sign-up
    procedures, first contract mediation and binding arbitration, and
    tougher penalties for violations of workers’ rights during organizing
    and first contract drives. The Employee Free Choice Act of 2007
    furthers the long-standing policy of the United States to encourage
    the practice of collective bargaining and to protect the exercise by
    workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation
    of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose
    of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or
    other mutual aid or protection.
    http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_reports&docid=f:hr023.110.pdf

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  7. The Employee Free Choice Act would allow workers to bargain for better benefits, wages, and working conditions by reastoring them the choice to join or not to join a union.
    -Remove Current Obstacles for employees who want collective barganing

    -Guarantee Workers who chose collective barganing have the ability to acheive a contract

    -Allow employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.

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  8. Kreven--great work!

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  9. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would alter the employee-employer relationship in three fundamental ways:
    1. It requires employers to recognize a union-- without an election--once organizers collect cards from a majority of employees. The act states that once the union submits signatures from over 50 percent of the employees to the National Labor Relations Board, it must certify the union without an election;

    2. It imposes first-contract mediation and arbitration; and

    3. It dramatically increases the penalties for unfair labor practices committed by employers during an organizing drive.

    EFCA replaces secret ballot elections--the method by which most workers join unions--with publicly signed union cards.
    Under the EFCA, workers have no say in union organizing tactics: EFCA does not permit workers to sign cards that call for an election without also counting those signatures toward a card-check majority. Workers must decide whether or not to join a union publicly in front of union organizers.

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  10. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Labor/wm2210.cfm

    here's my source

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  11. The Employee Free Choice Act proposes workers to bargain 4 better benefits, wages, and working conditions by reastoring them, the choice to join or not to join a union.

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