Should Employee Free Choice Act Go Even Further With Labor Law Reform?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/10731

Does the Employee Free Choice Act go far enough? One labor activist doesn’t think so. Jesse Russell reports:

The Employee Free Choice Act is intended to give workers more rights in the workplace when it comes to choosing representation. Bill Fletcher author of the book Solidarity Divided, doesn’t think the act goes far enough to protecting those rights:

: The legislation should have been focused less on card check and voting and more on completely eliminating the employer from any role at all in the workers right to choose a union.

Fletcher says employees are under pressure from their employer.

: Workers in workplaces always have that third eye open and that third eye is watching the employer to see what the signals are. So if the employer even hints that someone might be terminated or even hints that something might be shut down or even hints that it doesn’t like the union that can have an impact because of how hierarchical our society is and the way people look at positions of power.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Hell yeah.

Like a guaranteed LIVING WAGE would be nice.