Employee Free Choice Act

California (And Every Other State) Should Pass a Law for Exercise Breaks

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Long Term Health Benefits, Employee Free Choice Act, Exercise, Workplace Law, Mandated Work Breaks, Meal Breaks, California, California Supreme Court, Workers Rights, Business News

Most working people do not go hungry because they have no time to eat. Even the most rushed individuals can usually gulp a meal bar in five minutes. What they do lack, however, is time for exercise.

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Pomona Firings Show the Paradox of Immigrant Labor Organizing

Nathan Robinson | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Nlrb, Pomona College, Immigration, Labor, Labor Organizing, Employee Free Choice Act, Claremont, Unionization, Labor Unions, Unions, College News

Fixing immigration and fixing labor are inseparable. Immigration reform could give increasing freedom to workers to organize without fear, but without vigorous protections on organizing, employers still hold all the cards.

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Occupy Wall-Mart: Save America. Live Better.

Al Norman | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Sam Walton, Made in America, Economic Justice, Occupy Wall-Mart, Walton Enterprises, Employee Free Choice Act, Business News

The encampments against corporate greed in the financial districts of America could just as well have appeared outside of Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. There is no better example of corporate exploitation in the world.

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Labor's Success Fuels Decline

Al Checchi | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Organized Labor, Labor Movement, The Change Maker, Democratic Party, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Al Checchi, Politics News

In a "what have you done for me lately" world, there is little that labor can now offer and it is increasingly difficult to envision future circumstances for reversing its sagging political and economic fortunes.

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The Employee Free Choice Act is Back; The National Labor Relations Board has Awakened a Sleeping Giant

Wendy N. Powell | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Employee Free Choice Act, Nlrb, President Obama, Efca, Congress, Wendy Powell, Nlra, George-Meany, George Mcgovern, Politics News

Keep an eye out for the newly proposed changes to the National Labor Relations Act. They are remarkably similar to the Employee Free Choice Act. The ...

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While the Middle East Is Fighting For Democracy, Ours Is Slipping Away

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.25.2011

MONEY has always been the most corrupting influence in our politics, a fact that is now on full display in Republican-controlled state houses across the midwest that are voting against public employees' right to collective bargaining.

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Obama and the King Who Knelt in the Snow

Rakim Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Left, Cornel West, William Daley, Rush Limbaugh, Employee Free Choice Act, 2010 Elections, President Obama, Political Right, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

Corporate business interests have had a strangle hold on Washington for many decades now. And the President's kneeling reveals that there is no easy way to break this corporate death grip.

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Changing the Rules for Workers

Michael J. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nlrb, Lobbying, Employee Free Choice Act, Big Business, Efca, Labor Movement, Chamber of Commerce, Unions, National Labor Relations Board, National Labor Relations Act, Workers Rights, Politics News

It's no surprise that Republicans are up to their old games. Having successfully blocked efforts to strengthen the right of workers to organize, they now want to stop workers from learning their rights too.

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Weekly Audit: Banks Get Big Bucks, Consumers Get Bupkis

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Weekly Audit: Banks Get Big Bucks, Consumers Get Bupkisby Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Last week, the Federal Reserve announced a plan...

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A Progressive Primary to Push for Jobs and End the Wars

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Democratic Primary, Congress, Social Security, Employee Free Choice Act, MoveOn.Org, Afghanistan, Michael Moore, 2012 Election, 2010 Elections, President Barack Obama, 2010 Election Results, Jesse Jackson, Paul Wiseman, Jonathan Chait, Progressive Primary, Election 2012, Politics News

The worst thing we must now face is that the 2010 election is likely a preview of 2012, unless some dramatic new element is introduced into our national politics that changes the character of national debate.

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When Progressives Unilaterally Disarm: AFL-CIO Says EFCA Is Now an Insignificant 'Non Issue'

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Buck, Labor, Bennet, Employee Free Choice Act, Colorado, Denver, Michael Bennet, Afl-Cio, Efca, Labor Movement, Denver News

This week, Senator Bennet finally ended his silence on the Employee Free Choice Act by coming out against it. This is not surprising. What is surprising is the labor movement's messaging about Bennet's announcement.

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Union Members to Palin: Where Do You Stand?

Edwin D. Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Mid-Term Elections, Employee Free Choice Act, Chuck Grassley, Lily Ledbetter Act, Sarah Palin, Afl-Cio, Edwin D. Hill, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Carly Fiorina, Labor Unions, Unions, Politics News

If Governor Palin expects to get union members to support her endorsed candidates, we'll need to see the details.

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Labor Unions, the Economy, and the EFCA

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S Economy, Efca, Labor, Bernie Marcus, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Economy, Business News

The Employee Free Choice Act could lead to a re-empowerment of labor in the face of corporate greed and the possibility of restoring sanity and balance to a system that stacks the deck in favor of the wealthy.

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What Kind of Capitalism?

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Credit Card Reform, Unemployment, Wall Street, Good Jobs, Rush Limbaugh, Bank Reform, President Barack Obama, Employee Free Choice Act, Shared Prosperity, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Capitalism, Health Care, Unions, American Prospect, Politics News

We are surely at a crossroads. Like the choices facing America during the Great Depression, we need to rescue capitalism again. But what kind of capitalism will best serve the most people?

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Who Is to Blame for the BP Disaster?

Michael J. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whistleblowers, Bp, Employee Free Choice Act, Deepwater Horizon, Unions, Workplace Intimidation, Government Accountability Office, Workers Rights, Business News

The first thing we need to do to prevent more catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon is to change our laws so that workers can feel comfortable speaking up when they see something dangerous.

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Getting America Back to Work

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Getting America Back to Work, Stewart Acuff, Afl-Cio, Unemployment, Employee Free Choice Act, Unions, Utility Workers Union of America, Dick Levins, Politics News

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Can Obama's "Made in America" Strategy Save Jobs -- and Dems?

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Manufacturing, Labor, Obama, Made in America, Employee Free Choice Act, Business News

On Wednesday, President Obama used the platform of the AFL-CIO Executive Council to emphasize reviving American manufacturing and keepi...

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Shirley Sherrod and All Workers Deserve To Have Their Voices Protected

Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Labor, Freedom to Join Union, Tom Vilsack, Employee Free Choice Act, Shirley Sherrod, Aclu, Unions, Politics News

All across the nation, people are watching the case of Shirley Sherrod, who was asked to resign as Georgia state director for rural development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture because of an edited video clip.

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A Progressive Candidate Ignored By the Democratic Party

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.25.2011

Perhaps it is quixotic to pursue a seat in Congress these days if you are a progressive. I think not. Candidate Dr. David Gill has been chasing that d...

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Bennet Dodges the Card Check Question, Again (VIDEO)

Kelly Maher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Bennet, Craig Becker, Card Check, Efca, Employee Free Choice Act, Denver News

Appointed U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., will not give a straight answer on whether he supports card check, which would eliminate a secret ballot ...

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Realizing the Promise of the National Labor Relations Act: Common Justice and Economic Advance

Sec. Hilda Solis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Labor Relations Board, Employee Free Choice Act, Labor Unions, Unions, National Labor Relations Act, Politics News

The NLRA was signed into law when our nation was in the grip of the Great Depression. At a time when the economy was spinning out of control, some critics were hesitant about a law that empowered workers. Sound familiar?

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Q&A with Veteran Labor Organizer Stewart J. Acuff

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

The economic history of the twentieth century is crystal clear. When unions were strong, working people had the lion's share of income and the economy worked well.

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What Really Goes On In Organizing Campaigns

Edwin D. Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor, Chamber of Commerce, Employee Free Choice Act, National Labor Relations Board, Richard-Berman, Unions, Ibew, Politics News

The idea that union intimidation is the hugest threat to the right of workers to decide to unionize flies so greatly against the reality of an organizing campaign, that it can't stand unchallenged.

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Missing Lesson from Mine Tragedy: Union-Busting = Death

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, Mine Safety, Employee Free Choice Act, Department of Labor, United Mine Workers of America, Obama, Congress, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

With the union weakened by closed mines and the rise of untrammeled union-busting, unsafe, deadly conditions were allowed to continue unchallenged at the growing percentage of non-union mines that put profits above safety.

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Punching Holes in so-called Free Market Economics

Stewart Acuff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afl-Cio, Massey Energy, Bill Flecther, Stewart Acuff, BP Oil, Employee Free Choice Act, Utility Workers Union of America, President Obama, Politics News

This piece co-authored by Stewart Acuff & Bill Fletcher, Jr. We have found ourselves wondering why President Obama is being 'red-baited' ...

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