SEIU Local 32BJ leader Jaime Contreras makes the case for why America's economy needs the Employee Free Choice Act:

In this economic crisis caused by corporate greed, working Americans are in urgent need of the immediate relief that union wages can provide and not the propaganda of a shameful corporate attack on their best interests.

>> In Tampa, a union member writes about the benefits of the Employee Free Choice Act for businesses:

Labor unions, in general, promote the freedom to help the employer be more productive and competitive. Then honor the employees by sharing in the profits that the increased productivity creates. The labor union and the employer collectively increase the educational opportunities for the workforce. Through this education, the employee becomes a greater asset and more productive in his or her job. Therefore, the employer becomes more competitive and increases its opportunities for greater profit.

The Employee Free Choice Act will be the greatest champion of workforce development and economic recovery since [...] 1935.

>> Mark Gaffney tells the story of working families' victories on Election Day in the Detroit News:

Across the nation, anti-union political ads did not work. In Colorado, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Virginia and North Carolina, voters rejected incumbent U.S. senators and chose challengers who campaigned in support of the Employee Free Choice Act and expanding workers' rights to join unions. Polls in those states -- done by Peter D Hart and Associates for American Rights at Work -- found that two-thirds of voters support making it easier for workers to organize into unions. They also said in the poll that big corporations have too much power, which creates problems (50-23 percent).

>> In the Buffalo News, Susan Rowles says that the "Employee Free Choice Act [is] needed to protect workers":

Employees who support union-organizing activities have a one in five chance of being fired. That is why the Employee Free Choice Act is needed. If a majority of the employees sign cards saying they want a union, unless the employer can prove coercion, it should be recognized. Then maybe we can re-establish the middle class in this country.

>> And at the Wonk Room blog, Pat Garofalo writes about why the hyperbolic vitriol of former Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus against Employee Free Choice is completely off-base:

Marcus allegedly added that "If a retailer has not gotten involved with this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and these other guys," who oppose the Free Choice Act, then the retailers "should be shot; should be thrown out of their goddamn jobs."

But easing the path toward unionization is hardly the end of civilization, unless Marcus deems increased wages along with better health and pension benefits for America's workers to be civilization's death knell.

Indeed, as corporate profits have been going up in recent years, workers wages have stagnated. Shared prosperity through increased unionization, not the end of civilization, is what backers of the Employee Free Choice Act are looking to create.