Employee Free Choice Act
The right to form and join trade unions is a basic human right and long-standing US policy; it is also a right affirmed by most religious denominations as essential for upholding human dignity. However, companies frequently launch massive, well-funded campaigns to fight organization efforts. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would ensure that when a majority of employees in a workplace decide to form a union, they could do so without the harassment, intimidation, illegal firings, and other tactics that employers now use to block workers' free choice.
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IWJ Materials on Unions and the Employee Free Choice Act
National Faith Organizations Support Employee Free Choice Act
Nearly forty national faith-based organizations and denominations wrote to Congress to ask their support of the Employee Free Choice Act, April 27, 2009.
IWJ Network Writes to Congress to Ask Support of the Employee Free Choice Act
Forty-five groups from twenty-five states around the country wrote to Congress to ask their support of the Employee Free Choice Act, April 17, 2009.
Employee Free Choice Act Delegation Toolkit
The toolkit includes common Questions & Answers, a guide to organizing a Senate Delegation, as well as 6 bulletin inserts in support of the Employee Free Choice Act written by different religious leaders.
Why Unions Matter
A basic introduction to unions and why they are important.
Background on Unions and the Need for the Employee Free Choice Act
Talking Points on Unions and the Employee Free Choice Act
Union Organizing and the Employee Free Choice Act
by Kim Bobo, Faith Works, January 2007.
U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao Supports the Interests of Business over the Interests of Workers
Letter to the Editor, excerpts published by the Chicago Tribune, March 10, 2007.
Faith and the Right to Organize
What Faith Groups Say About the Right to Organize
A compilation of mainstream American faith positions on the dignity of labor and the right to organize.
EFCA: A Faithful Response to Lift Up Workers' Rights
A faith resource on the importance of unions and the Employee Free Choice Act.
Labor in the Pulpits/ on the Bimah/ in the Minbar
The annual program highlights workers' rights and in particular the right to form trade unions.
There is Power in Union: A Unitarian Universalist Guide to Supporting Worker Justice
By Rev. Aaron McEmrys – this is intended to be a simple, introductory guide for Unitarian Universalists who want to support Worker’s Rights.