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Lies & Distortion on the Secret Ballot
7/30/08—Business special interest groups have launched a $160 million campaign to derail reform of the nation's broken labor law system by lying about the Employee Free Choice Act. Their only line of attack - that the bill somehow takes away so-called "secret ballot" elections for joining a union - is blatantly false.
Ad Campaign Launches for Employee Free Choice Act at the Democratic National Convention
8/26/08—Yesterday marked the start of new ads to broaden support for the Employee Free Choice Act. Included in this kickoff are two prominent billboards in Denver and full page ads in Politico and USA Today. This is a preview of a larger campaign to make the Employee Free Choice Act a reality for workers struggling in this economy.
A growing, bipartisan coalition of policymakers supports the Employee
Free Choice Act, federal legislation that would ensure workers have a
free choice and a fair chance to form a union. Learn more about the Employee Free Choice Act.
When
is a FedEx worker not a FedEx employee? When it benefits the FedEx Corporation. A new report documents the
widespread use of employee misclassification at FedEx Ground, which denies workers’
fundamental civil rights and workplace protections.
The Employee Freedom
Action Committee is a new anti-union front group from Richard
Berman
that attacks Congressional candidates who
support the Employee
Free Choice Act. Behind the scenes, the group is a corporate-funded
campaign against workers' rights.
American Rights at Work releases a new
report detailing the strategies - both legal and illegal - that
typically comprise employers' efforts to deny their workers' rights to
form unions and collectively bargain. Read more about this report.
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