Employee Free Choice Act

Over 42 million American workers say they would join a union if they could. Unfortunately, when these employees try to form a union at work, they are met with a campaign of harassment, intimidation and retaliation. Federal labor laws are now written so that they are powerless to stop this harassment.

The Employee Free Choice Act, sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Representative George Miller (D-CA), ensures that workers can organize a voice at work without the withering attacks they are now faced with. Penalties that are now non-existent for employer misdeeds will be strengthened and employers cannot avoid bargaining first contracts without submitting to fair and impartial arbitrator.

A bipartisan group of more than 32 Senators and 207 House Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of this bill, which was recently introduced in November 2003.

Click here for a list of supporters in the Senate (S. 1925) and in the House of Representatives (H.R. 3619).