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Moyers Highlights Jobs with Justice Organizer, Employee Free Choice
By Seth Michaels · Posted on April 3, 2009 at 3:47 pm · 
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Fair Wages, Legislation, Workers' Rights
Moyers Highlights Jobs with Justice Organizer, Employee Free Choice

On this past week’s “Bill Moyers Journal” on PBS, Moyers took a look at the battle for worker freedom during our current economic crisis. It’s a great segment... Read more »

Student Week of Action Focuses on Employee Free Choice
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 30, 2009 at 4:20 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Fair Wages, Workers' Rights
Student Week of Action Focuses on Employee Free Choice

This week, Jobs with Justice’s Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) kicks off a week of action in support of the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act and the... Read more »

Fight for Employee Free Choice Continues Despite Specter’s Flip
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 24, 2009 at 4:56 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Fair Wages, Workers' Rights
Fight for Employee Free Choice Continues Despite Specter’s Flip

Even though he was a sponsor of the original Employee Free Choice Act in 2003, supported the bill again in 2005 and voted against a Republican filibuster of it... Read more »

100 Historians Sign On to Support Employee Free Choice Act
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 24, 2009 at 2:59 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Fair Wages, Workers' Rights

Some of the nation’s top historians have signed a petition asking Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and protect the freedom to form unions and bargain. Organized... Read more »

Small Business Owners: Employee Free Choice Good for Our Workers and Us
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 23, 2009 at 4:38 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Workers' Rights

Corporate leaders are making a lot of unfounded claims that the Employee Free Choice Act would be bad for small businesses. But when you ask many small business... Read more »

Proposal to Gut Employee Free Choice Act: Written by CEOs, for CEOs
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 23, 2009 at 3:56 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Workers' Rights

A group of three big corporations—Starbucks, Whole Foods and Costco—have floated a proposal for labor law reform that just won’t cut it. These big corporations... Read more »

Economic Policy Institute Study: Unions Don’t Cause Firm Closures
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 23, 2009 at 1:43 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Workers' Rights

What’s the real effect of union membership on businesses? A new report by economist John DiNardo of the University of Michigan suggests there’s no connection... Read more »

WSJ: Employee Free Choice Does NOT Eliminate Secret Ballots
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 20, 2009 at 3:45 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Workers' Rights

      A striking concession today from the hard-right, corporate-friendly editorial board of the Wall Street Journal: In the midst of an angry editorial... Read more »

Legal Scholars: Employee Free Choice Consistent with International Standards
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 20, 2009 at 2:21 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Workers' Rights
Legal Scholars: Employee Free Choice Consistent with International Standards

As the Employee Free Choice Act builds momentum to passage, opponents of the workers’ freedom to form unions are getting desperate in their attempts to mislead... Read more »

Obama: We Should Make It Easier for Workers to Organize
By Seth Michaels · Posted on March 19, 2009 at 4:35 pm ·  Filed under Feeds
Topics: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Workers' Rights

    Barack Obama speaks to workers last fall on the campaign trail.       Although the focus on the Employee Free Choice Act is on the U.S.... Read more »

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