Executive Council Statement
The Employee Free Choice Act: Two Steps Closer to Becoming Law
… in both houses of Congress. On March 1, the House of Representatives voted for Employee Free Choice by a margin of 241 to 185. And on June 26, 51 senators voted to defeat a Republican filibuster of Employee Free Choice and move forward with … forming and joining unions in this country is badly broken. Workers today who merely want to exercise this fundamental right, which is supposed to be guaranteed by law, are routinely forced to endure a grueling ordeal—one in which they are … concerted hostility of the House Republican leadership—ultimately gave way on May 25th to our superior commitment to make work pay. Similarly, our commitment to enact Employee Free Choice will not be abandoned until it succeeds. So the question …