Loading ...A caller on the Thom Hartmann show last week said that card check neutrality (when an employer agrees to remain neutral when their employees form a union — what the Employee Free Choice Act would guarentee for all workers) is really analogous to voter registration. I like that.
Opponents of employee free choice often frame card check agreements as if an employer is agreeing to mandate that its workers join a union. That’s just not the case– only workers can organize a union. The “neutrality” is that the employer just agrees to not interfere as they practice that choice, that vote. The employer agrees to honor democratic freedom in the workplace.
Indeed, unions are the only institution for workplace democracy
More:
1) Sign the online petiion:
2) Read this interesting Op-Ed from today’s paper, an employer who supports the Employee Free Choice Act:
http://www.pittsburghpost-gazette.com/pg/08246/908668-432.stm