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The Employee Free Choice Act, supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would enable working people to bargain for better benefits, wages and working conditions by restoring workers’ freedom to choose for themselves whether to join a union. It would: Remove current obstacles to employees who want collective bargaining. Guarantee that workers who can choose collective bargaining are able to achieve a contract. Allow employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.
Greedy CEOs and anti-union front groups are working overtime to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act. To fight back, Send a letter to your U.S. senators and representative in Washington, D.C., and ask them to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
President Signs Measure to Reform New Jobs, Unemployment and Education Data on Facts & StatsThe Detroit Free Press reports that the United Auto Workers (UAW) has agreed not to strike Chrysler-Fiat through the fall of 2015, and instead to submit to binding arbitration any unresolved issue in bargaining when the current agreement expires in 2011. According to Bankruptcy court filings, the UAW also agreed to freeze wages through September 2011, reduce health care benefits for retirees and allow a lower hourly wage of about $14 for all new hires. In addition, higher-paid skilled trade workers can now perform production work and the company will enforce a stricter attendance policy.
Remember CAFTA backers at the polls08.03.2005 Fifteen Democrats and 202 Republicans sided with corporate interests and against workers, farmers and consumers when they voted for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). President Bush, who signed the bad trade deal in early
August, had to twist a lot of arms in the House of Representatives. Even so, UAW
President Ron Gettelfinger praised Democrats and Republicans who resisted that
pressure and voted against repeating the disaster of the North American Free
Trade Agreement, which decimated
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