In an op-ed in The Hill today, Rep. Phil Hare revisits the Employee Free Choice Act, pushing for its passage and arguing that it represents a "second stimulus package."  Hare does a particularly good job of describing the rationale for the bill: specifically, the current obstacles faced by workers trying to unionize:

The current system for forming unions is badly broken, hampering the ability of working families to bargain for a better life. Employers routinely intimidate, harass, coerce, reassign or even fire workers who support a union. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, employers unlawfully fire at least one worker for union activity in 25 percent of all organizing drives. This is unacceptable.

In the cases where workers manage to form a union, many employers continue their resistance by refusing to reach a first contract. In fact, a third of unions still do not have a first contract after more than a year of bargaining. Without a contract, there is effectively no union.

He goes on to take aim at the "frantic and misleading" claims from EFCA opponents that the bill would eliminate the right to a "secret ballot" union election and set wages via binding arbitration.  Read the whole thing.