Yesterday, the union movement ramped up its attacks on the Chamber of Commerce over its “two-faced” approach to the Employee Free Choice Act’s provision requiring arbitration if a business won’t bargain in good faith after a union’s been chosen by workers. As the AFL-CIO Now blog observed: The latest Big Business tactic is to attack …
The misleading attacks by Big Business on the Employee Free Choice Act now are aimed at the provision that would guarantee that workers can get a fair first contract. Their scare tactics are not only misleading, they’re hypocritical. Right now, workers lack a legal means to ensure they get a fair first contract. Recent research …
Corporate Hypocrisy on Bargaining Highlights Need for Employee Free Choice Read More »
This week, the Chamber of Commerce launches its most forceful lobbying effort yet to kill the Employee Free Choice Act and to end talk of compromise on Capitol Hill. The Chamber is donning the masquerade of championing workers’ rights by railing over the myth that the bill would take away the secret ballot — it …
As Chamber Lobbies, Its Paid Expert Says: No Unions, No Minimum Wage Law Needed Read More »
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 »
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.
