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CCV & The Employeee Free Choice Act
Employee Free Choice Act
Our economy only works when it works for everyone.
In good times but especially in bad, America is a community that has been able to get ahead by bringing everyone along.
The need for American families and working people to hold corporations accountable and make sure they're working for everyone's interest, not just a few greedy shareholders, is more important than ever. Through unions workers come together to balance their voices with the power of corporations, and to build an economy that works for everyone.
Why do we need the Employee Free Choice Act?
Even before the recession, families were finding it increasingly hard to make ends meet, pay for health care, send their kids to college, and save for retirement. When workers come together to ensure good jobs for their families and communities, corporations routinely intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire people who try to organize unions-and today's labor law is powerless to stop them.
- Employees are fired in one-quarter of private-sector union organizing campaigns;
- And even after workers successfully form a union, one-third of the time they are not able to get a contract.
We need meaningful labor law reform that ensures:
- A free and fair path to choose to join a union
- Real penalties for employers that break the law
- Workers and employers reach a contract in a reasonable period of time
What does the Employee Free Choice Act do?
- Strengthens penalties for companies that illegally coerce or intimidate employees in an effort to prevent them from forming a union;
- Brings in a neutral third party to settle a contract when a company and a newly certified union cannot agree on a contract after three months;
- Establishes majority sign-up, which means that if a majority of the employees sign union authorization cards a company must recognize the union. Large national companies with good profit margins and good labor relations, such as AT&T and Kaiser Permanente, have used majority sign-up successfully for years.
