Employee Free Choice Act passes with 13 Repukes voting aye

[Greeby]

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll118.xml

Ferguson
Fossella
King (NY)
LaTourette
LoBiondo
McCotter
McHugh
Murphy, Tim
Saxton
Shays
Smith (NJ)
Walsh (NY)
Young (AK)

Two Dems voted nay, Boren and Taylor. Anyone in those districts like to unload on these two idiots?

[upenn264]

1. Kudos to the brave *Repukes*

[NoodleBoy]

2. hurray!

rock. now let's see if the Senate has some balls, instead of just old men's heads that look like them.

[rhiannon55]

3. I guess I haven't been paying enough attention

What is the Employee Free Choice Act?:eyes:

[live love laugh]

4. I just got this explanation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x318356#318386

[pberq]

6. It would restore workers’ freedom to choose a union

http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/

It’s Time to Restore Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions

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.

The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800), supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would level the playing field for workers and employers and help rebuild America’s middle class. It would restore workers’ freedom to choose a union by:

* Establishing stronger penalties for violation of employee rights when workers seek to form a union and during first-contract negotiations.
* Providing mediation and arbitration for first-contract disputes.
* Allowing employees to form unions by signing cards authorizing union representation.

(The above link has links to the actual bill and a summary)

[AllegroRondo]

8. some more info

as the law stands now, if a company fires someone for trying to form a union, that person's only recourse is to sue. This can take years, and if the company loses, the WORST penalty is they are forced to re-hire the person with back pay. This makes it very profitable for big companies to simply fire anyone who tries to form a union, then deal with the lawsuits.

This bill establishes real puntative penalties to companies who fire pro-union workers.

[guitar man]

5. Fuck Boren

I know Oklahoma is a place that might require a more conservative breed of Democrat than a lot of other places, but this is just bullshit. They duped this state into voting for their stupid "right to work" law back in '02 and having a job in this state has been an exercise in starvation ever since. The good employers packed up and moved out and the dregs moved in trolling for desperate workers. Wages have plummeted here.

Boren can kiss my ass as far as I'm concerned.

[BL611]

7. Thats nice

unfortunately it has about the same chance of passing the Senate and Bush's pen, as pigs flying....to Jupiter.