Why is the Employee Free Choice Act so important to working people?  

Thanks to a new ad campaign from the AFL-CIO, the reasons are made clear.  

America’s working people are struggling to make ends meet these days and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity working people have to get ahead economically is by uniting to bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits.

But the current system for forming unions and bargaining is broken. Every day, corporations deny workers the freedom to decide for themselves whether to form unions to bargain for a better life.  They routinely intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers who try to form unions and bargain for economic well-being.

Read more about the Employee Free Choice Act here