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20
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3/20/2009 10:14 AM
The anti-worker Wall Street Journal finally admitted for the first time today that the "secret ballot" it claimed was being denied to workers by the Employee Free Choice Act is not actually taken away at all.
That's right. If you look closely, the Wall Street Journal is now on record stating that the Employee Free Choice Act does not take away the secret ballot. In a more perfect world, shredders across the country would be in overdrive with conservative and anti-worker groups ripping up their their talking points right now.
The fact of the matter is that the Employee Free Choice Act does not get rid of elections. It gives workers two ways to form unions so they can bargain for better wages and benefits. It allows workers to have a union once a majority of employees in a workplace signs authorization cards
indicating they want to form a union. The workers can also choose an NLRB-supervised election.
Both of these avenues are now available for workers to form a union. The difference is, under current law, employers can choose how their workers go about deciding how to form a union. Under the Employee Free Choice Act, the decision is made by workers. What can be more Democratic?
We live in a consumer economy built on low wages and debt. When credit dries up, consumers with discounted wages cannot spend. With low wages, consumers are limited in their disposable income with revenue generated int he economy trickling out to outsourced jobs and not "Down" to working people to spend.
This is a system destined to fail. There has not been greater income inequality between the wealthy and working people at any point since the Great Depression. When workers form unions, their jobs become solid middle class jobs supporting jobs with health care and retirement security. Years of deregulation,privatization and anti-union forces have created the mess we’re in now.
The only way to get out of this mess is by passing the Employee Free Choice Act. Take a moment to contact your Senator todayand make sure they stand with American workers and not a trickle down system rigged to fail.
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