Paychecks are shrinking, health care is skyrocketing, and America’s workers are struggling to make ends meet. In today’s economy, we need policies that give workers a fair shake.

The Employee Free Choice Act is part of an economic stimulus package for America’s working families. Our latest newspaper ad, running in The Hill, Roll Call, Daily Congress AM, and Politico, lays out some basic facts about the bill.

FACT: Workers in unions earn 30% higher wages and are 59% more likely to have employer-provided health insurance.
The Employee Free Choice Act is a common sense proposal to restore America’s struggling middle class and revive our troubled economy.

FACT: During union organizing campaigns, over 94% of employers resist their workers’ efforts to form unions, and 25% even fire union supporters.
This legislation fixes a broken system that gives corporations far too much power.

FACT: Laws in 13 states grant workers the right to choose majority sign-up as a fair and direct method of forming a union.
Since 2003, more than half a million Americans formed unions after a majority of the workers signed up for the union – including workers at companies like Kaiser Permanente, UPS and AT&T.

FACT: 68% of middle class Americans would like their Members of Congress to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act.
The legislation is also supported by President-elect Obama, Vice President-elect Biden and a broad coalition of U.S. Senators and Representatives.