Open Congress : News Articles for S.1041 Employee Free Choice Act of 2007

Why workers need the Employee Free Choice Act

2007-07-25T20:00:00Z

My union, CWA, with many others has been actively fighting for enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act. The Senate bill (S.1041) was introduced by ...

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Joe Biden: Senator Biden Supports Employee Free Choice

2007-06-26T20:00:00Z

June 26, 2007 -- Washington, DC – US Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) spoke on the Senate Floor today in support of the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041), ...

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Senate Gives America's Workers Their Independence Day

2007-06-25T20:00:00Z

Senators defeated S. 1041, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would replace federally-supervised secret ballot elections with a ...

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GOP Gives Employee Free Choice Act Fear-And-Smear Treatment

2007-06-24T20:00:00Z

S.1041, which is cosponsored by 46 Senators, is really pretty simple. It amends the National Labor Relations Act to allow employees to unionize in a more ...

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Memorial plaques in place

2007-06-21T20:00:00Z

The Employee Free Choice Act, recently before the US House of Representatives (HR800) and now before the US Senate (S.1041), strips workers of their right ...

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Casino Workers Rally for Free Choice Rights in Sacramento the Same ...

2007-06-18T20:00:00Z

It is doubly ironic that the day of the rally is the day as debate begun on S. 1041 (EFCA). Indeed thousands of fellow brothers and sisters gathered on the ...

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