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Employee Free Choice Act

Date: March 1, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Business and Consumers


EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT -- (House of Representatives - March 01, 2007)

Mr. HOLT. Madam Chairman, I thank my friend for yielding.

Madam Chairman, this is not really about secret ballots or any of the other kinds of red herrings that are being dragged across here. It is about whether we want an even playing field so workers will have the opportunity to protect their rights and interests and advance the American economy. It should be obvious that an individual worker is in a position of lesser influence relative to the employer. Going back now 70 years, the labor relations laws were put together so that there would be an even playing field. Now we need some adjustment in that because there is still not an even playing field.

The track record of unions is clear. Unions help lift working men and women and, in fact, the entire economy. Union members earn median wages that are higher. They have more employer-provided health insurance than nonunion members do. They have better defined benefit pension plans.

Unions benefit workers and benefit society. That is what this is about.

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