The Employee Free Choice Act

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The Employee Free Choice Act is supported by a growing, bipartisan coalition of policymakers. It is a proposed legislation the purpose of which is to make sure that workers should have the provision of free choice and fair chance to form a union. In a simple way, it can be said that Employee Free Choice Act if employees of an organization want to form a union they would allow to do that without even having fear of being fired (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2009).

With the help of this legislation workers would have a forum and availability of path through which they would be able to form union by means of majority sign up. It would aid employees to secure a contract with the employers in a sufficient period of time. It would lend a provision to employees to toughen the penalties in case the employers do anything that is in against of the rights of workers (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2009).

Now the main question arises is that why this bill is so important? If we make an attempt to describe the workplaces in today's era then it can be said that it is in complete favor of high paid CEOs. These CEOs possess golden parachutes on the other hand there is middle class families that strive to even get by (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2009).

Through the Employer Free Choice Act restoration to derive balance in the workplace is possible. By forming a union workers would be in a position to demand for better health care, they would be able to secure their jobs, they would be in a position to harvest more employee benefits and they would be able to arrange better and more opportunities to excel in their career and pursue their dreams (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2009).

The Impact of the Employee Free Choice Act on the U.S. Economy

With regard to labor law the Employee Free Choice Act can be considered as the most indispensible proposed alterations in the last half century. If this proposed changes are approved in its original form without making any amendments then it will alter the way in which unions are organized, recognized and most importantly it would also change the way in which bargaining between a union and employer takes place in case an initial conflict is not resolved. This is not only the changes that the corporate world has to face but it is also possible that this law can create scores of consequences. The following part discusses some of the impacts of implementation of EFCA.

In this report, the impacts that are discussed are elaborated in its original form without taking into consideration the proposed suggestion to make revision that would eliminate the component of card check from EFCA. According to this card check component a union can be recognized if the 50 percent of the employees sign a card that put forwards the request of representation from a specific ...