Richard Negri's blog

In January of this year the Economic Polity Institute issued a report called “The Employee Free Choice Act/ Questions and Answers.” The authors, Ross Eisenbrey and David Kusnet started the paper by stating, “For more than 70 years, the nation’s labor laws have proclaimed that working Americans’ right to join a union is a fundamental freedom, just like the rights to speak or worship. Indeed the freedoms to form unions and bargain with employers follow from other basic American rights – freedom of association and petitioning for the redress of grievances.”