Every time Local 67 negotiates a new contract, our companies compare what we have to the non-union competition and try to drag down our working standards.

It doesn't have to be this way. With more union members on our side of the table, we can raise working conditions for everyone -- your co-workers and other workers throughout our industries.

Unfortunately, the current system for forming unions and bargaining is broken. Every day, corporations deny workers the freedom to decide for themselves whether to form unions to bargain for a better life. They routinely intimidate, harass, threaten, coerce and even fire workers who try to form unions and bargain for economic well-being.

• Save Middle Class Jobs

• Affordable Family Health Care

• Restore the American Dream for America's Workers

• 60 million workers say they would join a union if they could.

The Employee Free Choice Act would make it possible for workers to freely choose union representation in a simple, fair process --

1) In a simple one-step process, if a majority of workers choose to sign up for a union, their company must respect that choice or be held accountable.

2) Companies must fairly negotiate a union contract or submit to binding arbitration. No more company campaigns to deny workers a union contract.

CEOs negotiate multi-million dollar contracts for themselves, but find it outrageous when workers want to exercise the same freedom to have a union contract.

Working people are falling behind. Protecting the right of workers to freely choose to join a union goes hand in hand with protecting the middle class. The best chance for ALL workers to get ahead is to join a union.

Over the last 30 years, wages have stagnanted; health care costs have skyrocketed and bankrupted many familes; and retirement security has been undermined.

60 million workers say they would join a union right now if they could. Why? They know that coming together to bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions is the best path to getting ahead.

Without legislative reform. America's working families will continue to fall behind.

• Union Members earn 30% higher wages than non-union workers.

• Union Members are 62% more likely to have employer health coverage.

• Union Members are four times more likely to have a pension.

Supports Employee Free Choice.  

"I support this bill because in order to restore a sense of shared prosperity and security, we need to help working Americans exercise their right to organize under a fair and free process and bargain for their fair share of the wealth our country creates. The current process for organizing a workplace denies too many workers the ability to do so. The Employee Free Choice Act offers to make binding an alternative process under which a majority of employees can sign up to join a union. Currently, employers can choose to accept--but are not bound by law to accept--the signed decision of a majority of workers. That choice should be left up to workers and
workers alone."