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The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has been re-introduced to
the 111th Congress. EFCA seeks to facilitate the ability of
workers to form unions by allowing unions to be recognized by a simple
majority sign-up (known as “card check”), mandatory mediation and
arbitration of first contracts where the parties cannot reach agreement, and
the imposition of penalties on employers who violate the rights of their
workers when trying to organize a union.
Because this legislation offers an opportunity to reverse
decades of employer resistance to unionization through both legal and
illegal methods, unions--including CWA—are strongly supporting passage of
EFCA while corporations, banks (some of whom, like Citigroup and Bank of
America, have received public bailout money), and business groups are vowing
to defeat the measure.
Because a stronger labor movement benefits not only union
members, but typically raises the wages and benefits of all
workers—including those whom WGBH management looks to for comparisons—the
success of EFCA could have profound consequences for AEEF members in the
long run. For more information, see the links below: |
