Why Does the Employee Free Choice Act Matter?
The Senate voted today on whether or not to vote on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), an important piece of legislation that doesn't get much attention.
This bill protects workers' rights to form a union. Only 12.5% of American workers are part of a union today, even though 58% of workers want to join unions. Organizing efforts are stopped too often by fear, harassment and bureaucracy.
Workers who belong to unions earn 30 percent more than non-union workers. They are 62 percent more likely to have employer-provided health coverage and four times likelier to have pensions.
Read more myths versus facts on the Employee Free Choice Act on the Senate blog. You can also hear directly from workers about their experiences trying to organize a union in their workplace by checking out these YouTube clips at the AFL-CIO blog.
UPDATE: The cloture motion failed in the Senate today, without the 60 votes needed to proceed to vote. There will be no vote in the Senate on the Employee Free Choice Act.
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