"Giving Workers The Choice On Unions"
Wednesday, December 17, 2008(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
"Although most workers would like to join a union, very few ever
get the chance to vote. In fact, employers have been stifling the efforts of
workers to lawfully organize a union through elections," wrote Jaime Contreras,
Capital Area Director of SEIU Local 32BJ, in a
Friday op-ed in Washington
Hispanic. "Consequently, less than 100,000 joined a union through secret
ballot election last year." "The Employee Free Choice Act would provide workers,
once again, with a fair shot at joining a union. What they choose to do is their
decision, just as it should be." Click here
to read the full op-ed.
- this report originally appeared
on the SEIU
blog.