At the three-day America’s Future Now! conference going on now in Washington, D.C., many workshops are focused on empowering people and building a stronger, fairer economy, and few issues are more critical to those goals than the Employee Free Choice Act and restoring workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life. At a …
Employee Free Choice Act: A Signature Battle for Our Future Read More »
President Obama knows the value of unions to the American economy and to American workers. He has forcefully spoken in support of workers organizing to improve their lives and staunchly supported the Employee Free Choice Act. But even a popular president has to count votes. Today he spoke again on the Employee Free Choice Act …
If you have any interest in politics you have heard by now the big news about Senator Arlen Specter switching his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. From what I can gather, the actual process to switch parties merely requires some paperwork. That’s it! Sen. Specter does not want to join the ranks of the …
Signing a Card to Join a Group? What a Novel Idea. Read More »
Two weeks ago, the North Carolina chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a big-business backed group, “honored” Senator Richard Burr and U.S. Representative Howard Coble each with a “Defense of the American Worker.” That title, of course, is a distraction. Anyone familiar with Sen. Burr’s and Rep. Coble’s record would never consider them friends of workers, …
Don’t Be Fooled: “Defense of the American Worker” Award Is Not a Good Thing Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
