Employee Free Choice Act
Over the years, the American labor laws have been very pressing and strenuous to the American workers particularly to the middle class employees the latter of who are the majority among the American working populations. The prevailing conditions in the American working environment have in fact hampered the progress of the middle class employees to a greater extent. Due to the deficiency of the current labor laws in terms of their ability to protect the employees from the rampant employer’s malpractices, the middle class work group in the United States is characterized by low wages, limited or no job related benefits and health care plans, prevalent lack of job security and lack of formal jobs contracts, and overall infringement of the workers rights by the scrupulous employers while the penalties for such labor malpractices remain notably lenient on the employer (Lance, 2007:2).
The current US system leans more toward the corporate. The bargaining power of the employees is generally law since the law undermines their freedom to unionize in an attempt to fight for their rights as a unit. As such the employers are able to thwart such a move by the employees via illegal intimidation or even dismissal without following the due procedure so as to prevent the formation of the union as the employers and top seeded employees are characteristically determined to maintain their status quo. Consequently, there have been consistent calls for the amendment of the United States labor laws to turn around this unfortunate state (American Union Movement, 2008). According to Mike, (2007:6) the Employee Free Choice Act a registration that was first proposed by senator Kennedy to the congress in 2006 is a law reform that gives a lifeline to the employees in terms of protecting their rights and easing the unionization of the latter to a great extent. However, controversy has ensued concerning the new law with some quarters supporting it while other greatly oppose it questioning its ability to solve the American workers predicaments, this paper therefore presents a review of the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 and discusses its pros and cons. However, limited time for the review compromises the depth of the review to a greater extent.
According to Lance (2007) many Americans workers especially the middle class believes that the formation of workers union will go a long way in providing viable solution to the current workers problems. The latter argues that Unionization fosters the works bargaining power to press for their rights, push the employers for better wages, for the establishment and full implementation of the employee’s benefits schemes, reliable pension schemes, to revolt against infringement of their rights and campaign for the overall improvement of the employee’s welfare.
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