I saw the commercial and called my US Senator Ben Nelson asap

[Omaha Steve]

I saw an anti EFCA commercial this morning. It told me to call my Senator right away. I did. I told the person how disgusting the lies on the commercial were. I confirmed my support for EFCA.

Have you called your US Senator yet? Yes it is important.

[liberalhistorian]

1. Forgive my ignorance, but what is

EFCA? I'm out of state on vacation and haven't turned on a teevee for nearly a week.

[zorahopkins]

3. Employee Free Choice Act

It's a bill that would allow uuorkers to more easily organize.

Rethuglikkkans oppose it.

Note: In protest of the continuing occupation of OUR Uuhite House by the illegal and totally corrupt Bush/Cheney regime of thugs and cronies, I REFUSE to use the letter betuueen "V" and "X". Instead, I use a "double u", as in "Uuhite House".

[Omaha Steve]

4. It is the Employee Free Choice Act

It gives EMPLOYEES the choice of private ballot or simple card check to have union representation. Currently it is the employers decision. It does not end private ballot elections as the opponents are saying. It just changes who makes the choice.

It would also end the stall tactic of not bargaining in good faith on a first time contract.


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


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

Joining together in a union to bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions is the best opportunity working people have to get ahead.

Today, good jobs are vanishing and health care coverage and retirement security are slipping out of reach. Only 38 percent of the public says their families are getting ahead financially and less than a quarter believes the next generation will be better off.

But workers who belong to unions earn 30 percent more than nonunion workers. They are 62 percent more likely to have employer-provided health coverage and four times more likely to have pensions.

All workers should have the freedom to decide for themselves whether to form unions to bargain for a better life.

* Read report: Union Representation and the NLRA (PDF).
* Learn more about the union difference in wages and benefits.
* Read report: The Recession and the Freedom to Organize by Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
* Some 60 million U.S. workers would join a union if they could.
* Read stories about workers fighting to form unions.

[antigop]

2. Did "Dr. Evil" have anything to do with this?

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/labors_leading_foe_in_upcoming.php

Meet the fine fellow who will be the number one foe of the big unions as they try to pass their number one legislative priority next year: He's a D.C. cartoon villain business lobbyist who fights efforts to restrict drunk driving, mandate healthier foods, and, of course, to hike the minimum wage.

He's Rick Berman, a notorious and familiar figure in D.C. who has spent years lobbying for business interests, many of them in the food and restaurant industries, and has been called everything from "sleazy" to "Dr. Evil" by his enemies.

We're introducing you to Berman because he is going to be at the center of one of the biggest looming fights in Washington this spring: The battle between business and labor over the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for unions to organize and is labor's number one legislative goal.

Berman runs a group called the "Center for Union Facts," which bills itself as a union watchdog organization but is described as a front group for business interests by labor officials. The group, which doesn't disclose its donors, will be one of several key business and right-wing groups leading the charge to kill the Employee Free Choice Act.

[liberalhistorian]

5. Wow, I sure wouldn't want

to be that asshole on Judgment Day!!!! Unbelievable that people could be like that, but, of course, we know all too many who are. There have always been assholes like that and always will be, our job is to fight against them hard.

[Omaha Steve]

6. Not sure

Next time I hope to see it from the beginning.