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House Resolution 800 was introduced the other day on the floor of Congress with wide bi-partisan sponsorship.

Also known as The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), this bill is to “amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to provide for mandatory injunctions for unfair labor practices during organizing efforts, and for other purposes.”

In short, it’s intended to restore the American tradition of majority rule to workers deciding whether to join a union. By allowing card check recognition, it will bypass most of the employer-generated intimidation tactics. But it also strengthens measures that must be taken if an employer is guilty of those already illegal tactics.

The Change to Win website has an excellent resource page on the bill. Please check it out. Even more, let your Congressperson know if you support the effort to help millions of other working Americans achieve the same benefits most of us take for granted as union members.

Need to be reminded of what kind of difference being in a union makes? Just take a peek at the chart below:

*image source: EFCA: Helping Workers Secure the American Dream (PDF)

Union workers make thirty percent more! Think about that for a second, and then ask yourself why other workers out there shouldn’t have a right to that kind of compensation. Ask yourself how much healthier our economy would be if more Americans could afford to buy homes and establish a real level of savings. Ask yourself how much better our sense of family values would be if more parents could spend quality time with their families.

Then ask yourself why you haven’t written or called your members of Congress to make sure they know how important this bill is to working people all across this country. (And if you have already done that, are you telling other people about it?) The time to act to improve the lives of all working Americans is now.

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