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The Employee
Free Choice Act
―I regard the growth of collective bargaining as essential.‖
—John Maynard Keynes in his February 1, 1938 Letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
during the 3rd recession of the Great Depression
1
We Produce More But We Earn Less:
Bargaining Power Matters

Productivity Wages 40%
2.0

Unionization
1.5
20%

1.0

0.5

Source: Economic Policy Institute. 2
Growing Gap Between
Workers’ Wages and Executive Pay
In 1980, CEO pay By 2006, CEO pay had
equaled 42 times the grown to 364 times the
average blue collar average blue collar
worker’s pay. worker’s pay -- by far the
widest gap in the world.

For large U.S. corporations
surveyed by Business Week
magazine

Source: Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy.
3
The Union Difference
Median Weekly Earnings, 2007
Union Workers Earn 30% More
1,000
Median Weekly Earnings

900
800
700 863 913 790
600
500 Union
663 738 592 Non-Union
400
300
200
100
0
Total Men Women

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Union Members in 2007," January 2008.
4
Union Density by State - 1983

0% to 9% 10% to 20% 21% & over
Source: Union Members in 1983, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 5
Union Density by State - 2006

0% to 9% 10% to 20% 21% & over
Source: Union Members In 2006, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
6
Workers in Other Countries Are Doing Better
Comparative Manufacturing Hourly Compensation
for Production Workers, 2005
$45
$39.14
$40
$35.47
$35 $33.00
$30.50 $30.79
$30
$23.65
$25
$20
$15
$10
$5
$0
U.S. Denmark Switzerland Germany Belgium Norway
Source: “International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing, 2005”, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
7
Collective Bargaining Coverage:
U.S. Lags Behind Other Democracies

8
Restoring America’s Middle Class
New Main Street
Economic
Jobs Recovery
Package Health Care
Infrastructure / Reform
“Green Jobs”
Investment Employee Free
Good Trade
Choice Act Policy
Re-regulate
Financial Sector
Fair Taxes
9
60 Million Americans Would
Join a Union Now if They Could
Among nonunion, non-managerial workers
Not sure
5%

Favor
union
42% 53%
Oppose
union

10
But Every Day, Corporations Deny
Employees the Freedom to Gain a Better Life

Contra Costa Comcast Verizon DSL
Times Techs –
Verizon
Business California
11
The System is Broken. . .
Among private-sector employers whose
workers try to form unions:
 78% force workers to attend one-on-one
anti-union meetings with supervisors
 92% force employees to attend mandatory
anti-union meetings
 25% illegally fire at least one worker for
union activity
 33% never agree to a contract

12
And the fix is. . .
The Employee Free Choice Act
 Puts decisions about recognition in the hands of
workers
 Workers get to choose whether recognition will be based on
majority sign-up or secret ballot; currently, management
decides
 Strengthens protections for workers:
 Imposes real penalties for employers violating the law
 Supports negotiation of first labor-management
agreement:
 Establishes mediation and binding arbitration when the
employer and workers cannot agree on a first contract

13
―This is the demise of a civilization…if a retailer has not
gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on
this election…he should be shot.‖
--Founder and former CEO of Home Depot, Bernard Marcus

14
The Opposition. . .
 Well organized and will spend over
$200 million to defeat the bill in the
Senate
 Mass use of TV ads and misinformation
 Union avoidance attorneys are working
to scare managers

15
Truth v. Lies #1
The Lie . . . ―It’s a special interest bill
and it just helps Big Labor.‖

The Truth . . . The Employee Free
Choice Act is part of the long-term
economic recovery plan and is key to
rebuilding the middle class.

16
Truth v. Lies #2
The Lie . . . The Employee Free Choice
Act eliminates the secret ballot.

The Truth . . . The bill still contains a
provision for a secret ballot election. The
primary difference is that employees –
not employers – decide.

17
Truth v. Lies #3
The Lie . . . The United States has a
democratic process that protects workers
from unions.
The Truth . . . Every other democracy
permits union recognition. Only the U.S.
forces workers to choose between ―their
boss‖ and their union.

18
What Can You Do To Pass The Act?
 Review and participate in state plan
 Write a letter to your member of Congress
 Make a phone call to your members’ offices in D.C.
and your home state
 Write a letter to the editor of your local paper
 Participate in joint actions as part of a campaign plan
in each state—such as a press conference, MMM card
delivery, or in-state lobby visits
 Put a human face on the struggle by participating in
worker lobby days and submitting stories of
organizing struggles

19
OUR TIME HAS COME

―The change we need doesn't come from
Washington. Change comes to Washington.
Change happens because the American
people demand it—because they rise up and
insist on new ideas and new leadership, a
new politics for a new time. America, this is
one of those moments.‖

—Barack Obama, in his Presidential Acceptance Speech

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