Open Left: Why We Need EFCA (over 1 in 4 private ballot elections ends in a worker getting fired)

[Omaha Steve]

For the record. I was fired illegally in 1980. After 3 & 1/2 years I won my case in court. Today a case like mine takes 10-15 years. It has already been 5 years for 120 workers fired illegally by CNN. They have only gotten to step 1. My case went through 5 stages. My case file: http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Board%20Decisions/261/261-38.pdf


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by: David Sirota
Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 09:37

Why do we need the Employee Free Choice Act? Here's one of the reasons from the Center for Economic and Policy Research:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than one-fourth of all union-representation elections in the 2000s have been marred by an illegal firing of a pro-union worker, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).

The paper, "Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007," by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer, uses a research methodology originally published in the Harvard Law Review and the University of Chicago Law Review and finds a significant increase in the current decade in the share of union-representation elections where workers have been fired for supporting the creation of a union.



Read the full report here: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/dropping-the-ax:-illegal-firings-during-union-election-campaigns,-1951-2007/%22 - you'll see that when it comes to how we allow workers to be treated, our country has started to take after repressive third world countries, letting corporations fire workers for trying to join a union.

It's time for change - it's time for the Employee Free Choice Act.
David Sirota :: Why We Need EFCA