Support for Employee Free Choice Act continues to grow

http://www.examiner.com/x-2071-DC-Special-Interests-Examiner~y2009m1d11-Support-for-Employee-Free-Choice-Act-continues-to-grow

January 11, 7:50 AM
by Ron Moore, DC Special Interests Examiner

Nice graphic at link won't transfer.

The list of grassroots groups endorsing the Employee Free Choice Act continues to grow as their members mobilize to support a bill that would remove obstacles to the right to organize. Unlike corporate front groups, grassroots organizations are comprised of actual members who choose to be involved in their communities.

The Employee Free Choice Act allows workers to negotiate with their employer after a majority approve through a simple card check process. Only after an agreement is reached and approved by a majority in a secret ballot election do the workers have a union.

Groups are mobilizing to remind Congress that it’s time to make the change we can believe in the change we can see by passing this bill. Even opponents admit that at least one million workers in the service industries would organize a union at their workplace given unencumbered access to the right to organize. A new survey shows that the tactics employed by opponents of the EFCA are backfiring as a substantial majority of American support passage of the Act.

Endorsing organizations include:

ACORN, Alliance for Justice, Alliance for Retired Americans, American Friends Service Committee, American Library Association – Allied Professional Association, American Public Health Association), American Rights at Work, Americans for Democratic Action, Americans United for Change, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Apollo Alliance, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Black Leadership Forum, Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS, California Church Impact, Center for American Progress, Center for America's Future, Center for Community Change, Center for Corporate Policy, Change America Now, Church Women United, Clergy and Laity Network United for Justice, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Coalition of Contingent Academics Labor, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Coalition on Human Needs, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, Cornell University LGBT Center, Demos, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Socialists of America, Earth Action Network, Empire State Pride in New York State, Equality South Carolina, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Gamaliel Foundation – Transportation Equity Group, Grassroots Policy Project, Gray Panthers, Gray Panthers of Austin, Tex., Gray Panthers of California, Gray Panthers of Berkeley, Calif., Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Watch, Interfaith Worker Justice, Japanese-American Citizens League, Jewish Labor Committee, Jobs with Justice, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, League of Rural Voters, League of United Latin American Citizens, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Michigan ACLU, NAACP, National Association of Consumer Advocates, National Baptist Convention of America, National Center for Trangender Equality, National Consumers League, National Council of Women's Organizations, National Employment Law Project, National Federation of Filipino American Associations, National Immigration Law Center, National Latino Congreso, National Employment Lawyers Association, National Partnership for Women and Families, National Puerto Rican Coalition, National Resources Defense Council, National Stonewall Democrats, National Women's Political Caucus, National Workrights Institute, NDN, NOW California, Operation BIG VOTE, Pax Christi USA, People for the American Way, Presbyterian Church USA – Washington, D.C., Press Associates Union News Service, Pride at Work, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Progressive Maryland, Progressive States Network, Queer Organizing Coalition, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Sierra Club, Sojourners/Call to Renewal Tikkun/The Network of Spiritual Progressives, United Church of Christ - Justice and Witness Ministries, United for a Fair Economy, United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society, United Nations Association of the National Capital Area, United for Peace and Justice, United States Student Association, United Students Against Sweatshops, United University Professors, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, USAction, U.S. Labor Against the War

I hope support keeps growing.

Support for this bill among Dems in the House was nearly unanimous.

I would expect much of the same in the Senate.

Try again.

It was known that it had absolutely no chance to pass.

Its different now that they may cast the deciding vote.

No Dem opposed in '07 and the same outcome can be expected on the next vote.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/01/pick-your-poison-arlen.html

Or a percentage. IF a vote suddenly comes on a day when several Republicans aren't on the floor....

The number for cloture is 3/5 of members duly elected and sworn, not present and voting.

Bad on me.

Could it be that "Libertarians" aren't really Libertarians?

except for when workers freely decide to band together in order to negotiate wages on an even playing field. For some reason that's different.

with phone calls and emails explaining that we're not fooled by the ridiculous ad campaign they ran this summer and 2. why they need to vote in favor of it.

I'll start with my own 2 rethugs, Collins and Snowe.