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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.
Wal-Mart Mobilizing against the Employee Free Choice Act
8/1/08—Today the Wall-Street Journal came out with a disturbing report saying that Wal-Mart is organizing its store supervisors against Democrats and other candidates who support the Employee Free Choice Act. Unfortunately for Wal-Mart workers, this intimidation is nothing new. It's actually part and parcel for Wal-Mart's business plan.
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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