Employee Free Choice Act

The Employee Choice Act (EFCA) would strengthen our nation's 72-year old labor laws so workers, once again, could be assured of being able to exercise their lawful organizing and bargaining rights. Get materials here to learn the facts and spread the word.

CWA Employee Free Choice website

CWA's Employee Free Choice Act website is a complete resource on why passage of EFCA is essential to restoring workers' bargaining and organizing rights under the law. This website site provides numerous fact sheets about the legislation, a background history, and numerous articles about how the nation's current labor law, the 72-year old National Labor Relations Act, is no longer able to adequately protect or enforce workers' rights.

New Video: "How Labor Law Gives Workers a Raw Deal"

The Center for American Progress has released a new animated video, ""How Not to Form a Union: How Labor Law Gives Workers a Raw Deal."  The video is a simple but effective explanation of how employers thwart the efforts of workers who try to exercise their right to form unions and bargain collectively. Check it out at http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2009/05/union_animation.html.

Catholics for Working Families Supports Free Choice

Catholics for Working Families is asking its members to help finance a radio ad that features actor and Employee Free Choice supporter Martin Sheen.

Sheen, who came to Washington, D.C., to lobby for Employee Free Choice with two of his costars from The West Wing, has recorded four radio ads focusing on key senators – Democrats Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Dianne Feinstein of California and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

The four versions of Sheen's ads are on the Catholics for Working Families website at http://www.catholicsforworkingfamilies.org/node/117.

More Employee Free Choice Act info & resources

The pro-worker organization, American Rights at Work, has compiled a wealth of information an resources to help union members promote passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. Click here for ARAW's Employee Free Choice section. Click here for ARAW's Employee Free Choice resource library.

Related Articles

• EFCA: The Basics
• Employee Free Choice Act: What the Bill Would Do

Handouts

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• Flag handout: Over 7o countries provide a fair way for workers to organize. The U.S. isn't one of them.

Photo Gallery

Download photos sent in from around the country by CWA activists working to promote the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.

We welcome related photo submissions from CWA local union officers, stewards, and members. The photos should be high-resolution (300 dpi) digital images. Please e-mail them us at thesource@cwa-union.org.