The Internet Newspaper: NEWS BLOGS VIDEO COMMUNITY
The Employee Free Choice Act
When workers are free to choose to join a union, our economy can work for
everyone again. That’s why we need the Employee Free Choice Act—a bill in
Congress that would help level the playing field and give workers the
freedom to choose a union.
Helps America’s working families improve their standard of
living. Workers in unions earn 30 percent higher wages and are
59 percent more likely to have employer-provided health insurance.
Fixes a broken system that gives corporations far too much
power. When workers try and organize unions, they are often
harassed and intimidated; 25 percent of companies unlawfully fire
pro-union workers.
Restores fairness and the promise of the American Dream,
with a robust middle class, economic growth, and shared prosperity.
Every once in a while, Stewart Katz, the attorney well known for
taking on prison-abuse and police-brutality cases, likes to ride his
antique ice cream delivery bicycle and – this is the controversial part
– give away ice cream.
Stewart Katz delivers free ice cream with son Alex, 7, at Riverbend Park. The civil rights attorney says he gets some flak.
Pioneering the largest public media
collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR,
community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite
television (DISH network: Free Speech TV ch. 9415 and Link TV ch. 9410;
DIRECTV: Link TV ch. 375); and on the internet. DN!’s podcast is one of the
most popular on the web.
