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Union Members Hear about the Need for the Employee Free Choice Act
On July 12, 2005 the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO co-sponsored a Town Hall meeting on the Employee Free Choice Act in Pittsburgh.
You can listen to or watch some of the speeches made by participants in the Pittsburgh event by downloading quicktime movies from this page. The Apple quicktime player is a free download from the Apple Web site. These clips are also available free of charge via the podcast section of the Apple Music Store (search for "Pennsylvania AFL-CIO").
Please note that the media may take some time to load depending on the speed of your connection to the internet.
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Rep. Mike Doyle
Mike Doyle is a U.S. Congressman representing Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district. He is also a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act. He talks about his support for the measure and about what people can do to help secure its passage.
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Kevin Beallis
Kevin Beallis is a long-time member of the IBEW and a Comcast employee from the Chicago area. He talks about how Comcast has systematically broken its promises to respect his union and union workers after it bought-out AT&T.
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William Laing
William Laing is a volunteer organizer with the IBEW and has been a union member for 34 years. He talks about what Comcast did to thwart union organizing campaigns in New Jersey, including firing workers for talking union.
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Donald C. Siegel
Donald C. Siegel is the 3rd International Vice President of the IBEW. He describes how some American and multi-national corporations abuse their power over workers to prevent the formation of unions, even though 57 Americans say they would like to join a union.
AMERICANS APPROVE OF UNIONS
According to a polls conducted for the AFL-CIO by Hart Research . . .
In 2002
50% of workers would vote to join a union if they could.
In 1999
52% of Americans think that Unions are good for the United States.
52% off Americans think that workers in Unions are better off than those who are not in unions.
69% of Americans think that joining a union is the best way to get problems at work solved.
54% of workers between the ages of 18 and 34 would vote to join a union if they could.
The EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT
Visit
the national AFL-CIO Web site to hear the stories of harassment
and intimidation of workers by employers told at the introduction
of the Employee Free Choice Act on April 19, 2005.
SHARE YOUR ORGANIZING STORY
Do you have a story about how workers have been harassed by employers for trying to join a union in Pennsylvania? Send it to us.
By documenting cases of employer efforts to oppose organizing efforts in Pennsylvania we can make the General Assembly and the U.S. Congress face up to the problem.