What EFCA Is About

by Josh Kalven on March 05, 2009 - 11:46am

Yesterday, Ezra Klein pointed to a devestating new report from the Center for Economic and Policy research showing that "[a]bout 1 in 5 union organizers or activists can expect to be fired as a result of their union organizing."  After noting how the frequency of such firings has increased and decreased between Republican and Democratic administrations (respectively), Klein made this salient point:

It's important to say that this is not about the Employee Free Choice Act. Rather, this is what the Employee Free Choice Act is about. It's impossible to organize a workplace when companies feel able to illegally fire pro-union workers with impunity. People need their actual jobs more than they need a hypothetical raise. The Employee Free Choice Act is one way to solve the problem. There may be others. But either way, the problem needs to be solved. Crime should not be tolerated. Not even when it's against labor unions.

Exactly right.  Check out our previous posts on EFCA to learn more.

Meanwhile, SEIU (whose Illinois State Council sponsors this website) has an effective, entertaining new web ad out highlighting CEO's extreme rhetoric about EFCA:

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Laborguy (not verified) on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 11:54

That ad would be funny if all those CEO quotes weren't real but they are. We are in for one hell of a fight. Senator Blanch Lambert-Lincoln of Arkansas is waffling of EFCA already. She is Wal Mart's senator.

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