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Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 03:19:29 PM EDT
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On Monday, March 12, a joint resolution (AJR135 and SJR68) was introduced into the Senate and Assembly urging Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
The Senate version is sponsored by Senator Loretta Weinberg (D37). The Assembly version is sponsored by Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri-Huttle (D37) and Assemblyman Thomas P. Giblin (D34). Co-sponsors on the Assembly version include Assemblyman Joseph Egan (D17), Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D14), and Assemblyman Gordon Johnson (D37).
The The enactment of the "Employee Free Choice Act" would safeguard a worker's ability to make their own decision concerning certain workplace abuses; preserve workers' freedom to form a union; provide for first contract mediation and arbitration; and establish meaningful penalties for employer violations of workers' rights.
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