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EFCA and Health Care Reform Connected
22 Sep 2009 by Tessie in Federal Issues, Home Page, Issues / No Comments
What’s the correlation?There is a strong relationship between our fight to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and the push for health care reform. Bob Riggins, former president of UAW local 5285, understands the importance of passing both bills.
“The Employee Free Choice Act is important because employees don’t have anybody who speaks for them. Employers regularly join the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations to form a voice and determine how business is operated. Employees should have the same right to bargain for wages, benefits and working conditions.”
“Unions can bring a voice and representation to workers. Employees do have the right to organize now, however they are frequently intimidated, coerced, or fired to prevent them from organizing the workplace. These laws need to be changed to give employees a fair chance.”
Riggins also sees the value in passing comprehensive health care reform. “Health care reform is badly needed. We have about 46 million uninsured in America, mostly women and children. It’s a shame that a country as rich as the United States is the only industrialized country in the world with no health care subsidized or run by the government.”
“The correlation is that employees are being short changed. They don’t have the right to organize free of harassment or the right to bargain for better health care. That’s why we need to pass the Employee Free Choice Act and health care reform, and we need to pass them now.”
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