The Employee Free Choice Act is legislation designed to protect the middle class by giving workers a free choice and fair chance to join a union. Employee Free Choice would ultimately raise wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers.It would do it by empowering workers with the chance to join a union in a simple one-step process: if a majority of workers choose union representation, their company must honor that choice and negotiate a union contract. It also holds companies accountable for trying to suppress workers’ freedom to join a union.CEOs negotiate their contracts—Employee Free Choice would ensure workers have the same right. With more members uniting for a voice on the job, we can build more power at the bargaining table to negotiate better contracts and restore the American Dream for millions of workers.

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How Does the United States Stack Up?

Why do 46 million people in the U.S. have no health insurance? Why do fewer than 50 percent of workers have any kind of Pension?

The Answer: Because just 12 percent of U.S. workers have collective bargaining rights - and less than 8 percent in the private sector. It’s no coincidence. As the percentage of workers covered by collective bargaining rights in the United States has dropped, from a high of 35 percent, so has the quality of our health care, retirement security, vacation and other leave policies, and work life issues. 
The rest of the industrialized world - and many developing countries - have laws and public policies to promote collective bargaining. The United States is going in exactly the wrong direction. The predictable result: working and middle class people are losing ground.
Here’s something else to think about. Countries with full bargaining rights and positive worker policies - like France, Belgium, Ireland, Norway, the Netherlands, just to name a few - also have higher productivity than the United States. 

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