"What is needed are laws that protect workers' rights to join a union, bargain collectively and refuse unsafe work, and only then can inspectors do their job.
For more than 70 years, workers rights to join unions and bargain collectively have won for them fair wages and decent working conditions.
Republicans sincerely believe that when workers are able to join together to bargain collectively and seize some measure of power in the workplace, it's an inherently bad thing.
Her Starfarer series – Starfarers (1989), Transition (1991), Metaphase (1992) and Nautilus (1994) – is concerned with humanity's expansion into the universe, first contact with an alien species and, in the final title, efforts to join other alien cultures collectively known as "civilisation".
"The right to join a union and collectively bargain is a freedom that people have died to protect.
A union is also the only real mechanism that enables employees to join together to bargain collectively, rather than as a bunch of separate, powerless entities".
At the same time, Wall Street and the politicians who conspire with them have worked overtime to destroy the ability of American workers to join unions and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits.
Instead, the Republican majority on the Committee has devoted 34 hearings and markups in the past six years weakening the National Labor Relations Act and undermining workers' efforts to join a union or collectively bargain.
The NFL Player's Association, engaged in a showdown with NFL owners also issued a letter of support, asserting, "The NFL Players Association will always support efforts protecting a worker's right to join a union and collectively bargain".
The Employee Free Choice Act would restore workers' right to join a union and bargain collectively by vastly simplifying the process so workers can express their desire without corrupt employer-dominated elections and years of illegal stalling.
