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Labor Refutes Some 'Choice' Lies
Tula Connell
June 15, 2007
The Senate begins debate on the Employee Free Choice Act on Monday, with a cloture vote expected Wednesday. Unlike in the House, where the bill passed with a wide margin in March, the Senate fight will be tough, and the union movement is urging all members and allies to send an e-mail to their senators and urge them to vote for the Employee Free Choice Act, S. 1041. The act would give workers more options in forming unions and level the playing field that's now tilted largely toward the boss. In the Senate, Sen. Edward Kennedy has led the fight for the bill, which now has 46 other co-sponsors. (The full list is here .)
But lawmakers like Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., are fighting working families' efforts to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. In May, union members met up with Coleman as he headed for a speaking engagement at the University of Minnesota campus. When workers asked him to support the Employee Free Choice Act, the senator said he could not back the proposed law. In his exchange with union members, Coleman repeated the incorrect canard that this act takes away the right to a secret ballot.
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