Time for real workplace democracy-- not the phony company version

Since Reagan, unions have been squeezed out of the workplace

It's always touching to hear top management almost sob with concern about employee rights, but Mr. Marcus is flat wrong. EFCA does not eliminate the secret ballot. The entire NLRB process is left in place, still available if workers choose to use it. EFCA simply restores the original intent of the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. The card-check method was authorized in that law--but, over the years, corporate interests were able to kill it by chiseling ... Full Story »

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by Martha Rosler - Mar. 19, 2009

Those of us not subscribers were unable to read the entire article. I have read this story in other sources, however, and knowing what I know about the leadership of Home Depot and corporate employers' fears of EFCA, I find it persuasive.

unions are necessary to uphold workers' rights; read the history books.

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