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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 ...
Hair of the Dog, Take Two: Let's Watch Who We're Being Bipartisan With
DownWithTyranny! —
Calvin Coolidge, Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover-- problem makers, not problem solvers Yesterday I tried getting across the idea that it makes no sense turning to the ideas-- and the people who promulgate those ideas-- that have driven our country to its knees. Republican ideology is failed ideology. Greed and selfishness is not a valid philosophy of ...
What Book Do You Want Obama to Read?
Firedoglake —
It’s time the economy worked for everyone again. That’s the message of two new TV ads in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.
Over at Washington Monthly, the editors asked a few Famous Names to describe the book they think President Obama should read. But they did not ask the rest of us. ...
