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Work with Obama on Free Choice

"Our seven unions and six million members will work with the Obama-Biden administration and new Congress to establish a bold agenda to fix our national health care system, invest in green projects and technologies to help create millions of new, good green jobs, and put working families back on the path of prosperity by passing the Employee Free Choice Act," said Anna Burger, chair of Change to Win.

EFCA, often called card-check, should help workers organize into unions much more easily by letting them sign authorization cards instead of holding secret ballot elections to form unions. Business associations have targeted the bill and are lobbying furiously against it. Union officials contend the legislation is necessary because too often employers have intimidated workers from forming unions.

“This is our moment – we need to seize the opportunity. If we're going to revive the American Dream, we have to build an economy that works for everyone. Working families across the country are ready and willing stand united and help enact change that gets our economy back on track now, and for generations to come," Burger said.
Source: The Hill, January 20, 2009.