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www.youtube.com — http://FreeChoiceAct.org National advertisement promoting the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill to help bring back the middle class. Lean more at FreeChoiceAc...

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Big Labor Launches Multimillion Dollar EFCA Ad Campaign (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Big Labor will launch a multimillion dollar national ad campaign Thursday to push for the Employee Free Choice Act. Known as "card check," the bill has been a top priority of organized labor for years and would allow workers to choose the means by which they decide to form a union. Under current law, employers can require that workers vote in a secret election whether or not to for a union. Under the new law, workers would be able to choose instead to publicly sign cards stating that they do, in fact, want to form a union. If more than 50 percent of workers sign the cards, then the union is official. The law further mandates that bosses negotiate with the union. The ...

Big Labor Launches Multimillion Dollar EFCA Ad Campaign (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Big Labor will launch a multimillion dollar national ad campaign Thursday to push for the Employee Free Choice Act. Known as "card check," the bill has been a top priority of organized labor for years and would allow workers to choose the means by which they decide to form a union. Under current law, employers can require that workers vote in a secret election whether or not to for a union. Under the new law, workers would be able to choose instead to publicly sign cards stating that they do, in fact, want to form a union. If more than 50 percent of workers sign the cards, then the union is official. The law further mandates that bosses negotiate with the union. The ...

Progressive Breakfast: Public Backs Public Investment
LiberalOasis : The Blog — Progressive Breakfast is created for OurFuture.org, and is the morning roundup of what progressive movement members need to know to start the day. New Poll: Strong Support for Public Investment The latest NBC/WSJ poll finds big support for public investment to get the economy back on track, mixed with an undercurrent of concern about spending too much. (Tell Congress: Pass Econ Recovery NOW!) 63% say "government spending that will help create jobs" is more important than tax cuts. 57% agree that the economic recovery plan is "a good idea because it will help ...

Hullabaloo — Brought To You BY The F*&#$%n' Union Marcy Wheeler has an amazing post up about that daring rescue of all those airline passengers in the Hudson River yesterday. Turns out that almost everyone involved in the rescue, top to bottom, was a union member. I'm going to borrow liberally from her post. There's the pilot: "What might have been a catastrophe in New York — one that evoked the feel if not the scale of the Sept. 11 attack — was averted by a pilot’s quick thinking and deft maneuvers, [snip] On board, the pilot, Chesley B. Sullenberger III, 57, unable ...