The Employee Free Choice Act is legislation designed to protect the middle class by giving workers a free choice and fair chance to join a union. Employee Free Choice would ultimately raise wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers.

It would do it by empowering workers with the chance to join a union in a simple one-step process: if a majority of workers choose union representation, their company must honor that choice and negotiate a union contract. It also holds companies accountable for trying to suppress workers’ freedom to join a union.

CEOs negotiate their contracts—Employee Free Choice would ensure workers have the same right. With more members uniting for a voice on the job, we can build more power at the bargaining table to negotiate better contracts and restore the American Dream for millions of workers.

WHAT: A national public hearing examining the impact of recent ICE raids on workers, families and local economies will be held in Los Angeles by the National Commission on ICE Misconduct.

WHEN: Tuesday, June 24th from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm

WHERE: Conference Center at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
555 West Temple Street Los Angeles, CA

CONTACT: Sylvia Carranza 213.381.5611 ext 128 or scarranza@launionaflcio.org

It's all Connected

This is an important year for Union members.

Not only do we have many of our contracts coming up for negotiation, but it is also an election year -- and therefore a reminder of how closely our wages, benefits and fortunes are linked to the occupants of every level of office from the Oval office to the City Council chamber.

How does it all connect? You can see the fruits of our political involvement at the State and local level in overtime after eight hours, family and medical leave, and many other laws. But there is a more pressing example: our current negotiations and the pending Employee Free Choice Act.