August 5, 2014
Last week, Representatives Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.) introduced a bill that would strengthen protections for workers who are retaliated against for supporting a union. The Employee Empowerment Act would give leverage to workers trying to exercise their right to organize without fear of intimidation by their employer.… Read More»
Tags: Employee Empowerment Act, National Guestworker Alliance, National Labor Relations Act, NLRA, Representative John Lewis, Representative Keith Ellison, unionbusting, United Workers Congress
April 22, 2014
Today many workers who try to band together to improve their jobs through traditional workplace organizing face significant impediments at the hand of hostile employers and outdated labor laws. Those challenges are even more noteworthy for the nearly quarter of the workforce that has no protection under the federal National… Read More»
Tags: National Labor Relations Act, United Workers Congress, worker centers, workers centers
