Today, a report issued by the Center for Economic and Policy Research points to a fairly disturbing (not to mention illegal) trend during the 2000s: if you looked at all of the campaigns to earn unions, you'd find that more than one-fourth of them have been "marred by an illegal firing" of at least one worker as he or she fought for representation in the workplace.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than one-fourth of all union-representation elections in the 2000s have been marred by an illegal firing of a pro-union worker, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).You can read the full report here: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/dropping-the-ax/
If there has ever been a more startlingly-clear reason as to why the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act is vital, you can look no further than this report. The bill will both give employees the free choice to join unions without management interference and strengthen penalties for employers who break the law.
