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Employee Free Choice Act

I am a member of a union. It works well most of the time. There are things that could be improved. Things that need to be changed. But at the end of the day, union membership is the only sure way that workers are protected. As I figure out the voice, tone and topic this blog will present, it makes sense to focus on the spin the Anti-Union side takes and relate personal stories (the good and the bad) of Unions, the leadership and the organizers. The following is from the AFLCIO web site: THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT * Find out whether your representative voted for the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800). * Find out whether your senator is a cosponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041). * Read the text of the Employee Free Choice Act. * Download a summary of the bill (PDF). It’s Time to Restore Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions America’s working people are struggling to make ends meet these days and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity wor