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EFCA Candidate Positions
Where They Stand | For more information on the Employee Free Choice Act, Click Here |
BarackObama co-sponsored the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041) in the Senate, and voted to evoke cloture to force consideration of the measure.* In his response to our presidential questionnaire, Obama commented on EFCA:I am a co-sponsor of and have fought for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act because I firmly believe that workers should choose whether they want to join a union without fear of intimidation, coercion, or threats to their livelihood. I am convinced that millions of Americans would join a union if given a fair opportunity, but the National Labor Relations Act in its current form too often allows employers to violate workers’ rights with impunity. The Employee Free Choice Act is a bipartisan effort to make the process of organizing less vulnerable to employer lawbreaking by requiring card-check recognition and increasing penalties on employers that violate the law. I support it, will continue to advocate for it, voted for it as a Senator, and would sign it as President. Employee Free Choice is a starting point, but there is more to do. I will use the bully pulpit of the presidency to educate our country about the important role of unions. And I will use the power of the office to appoint members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Labor Department who understand the situation of working families and respect their desire to organize and I will work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers.
| Clinton co-sponsored the Employee Free Choice Act (S. 1041) in the Senate, and voted to evoke cloture to force consideration of the measure.* Clinton discussed EFCA in her response to our presidential questionnaire:I am an original co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act, which will level the playing field between workers and employers, and ensure that employees will not be unfairly punished by their employers for attempting to unionize. EFCA would strengthen penalties for employer coercion when employees are attempting to organize, encourage mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes, and allow employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation- all of these will help create an environment in which workers would be able to choose a union free from employer coercion.
| | Gravel has not taken a public position on the Employee Free Choice Act. | | McCain has not made any public statement on the Employee Free Choice Act, but he voted against the cloture motion that would have allowed the Act to be voted upon in the US Senate. |
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