For: Jaime Contreras (*)
Forty two million workpeople in the United States would want to affiliate to a trade union, but they cannot. The current system allows to the irresponsible employers to delay the trade union elections and whip the workpeople. And even if the workpeople vote in favor of be unionizing, the employers simply can refuse to negotiate a new contract, without sanctions. The consequences: last year less than 100.000 joined a trade union across a secret voting.
The Law of Option Frees of the Personnel (EFCA, for his initials in English), a law project to point to happen for the Congress, is designed to give to the workpeople a just opportunity to affiliate to an union (trade union), giving you to them, and not to his employers, the right to choose. To fight against the law project, from the managerial world a multimillionaire disinformation campaign has been thrown. They have gone that far how to affirm that with EFCA one would deny to the workpeople the right to a few elections with secret voting, when the true thing is that the law project will provide to the workpeople the option to affiliate to a trade union by means of the signature of a card, to prevent the employers from slowing down the process and delaying the votings and the collective bargaining.
Although most of the workpeople would want to affiliate to a trade union, very few have the opportunity to vote. In fact, the employers have suffocated the efforts of the workpeople to organize themselves legally by means of elections.
On having provided to the workpeople the option to affiliate to a trade union by means of the signature of a card, the Law of Free Option of the Personnel restores the balance between the workpeople and his employers. The law initiative also believe a process to solve the contractual controversies and it penalizes the companies that punish the workpeople for the exercise of his rights.
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During the Big Depression, the Congress approved the National Law of Labor relations, since he was admitting that the employers were enjoying an unjust advantage on the workpeople, which they were using to depress the wages. Nowadays, this balance has inclined once again in favor of the employers and needs to be corrected. More that never, the workpeople need the force negotiator who brings with it the union. The unionization can increase the wages of the workpeople of low income even in 20 per cent. On the other hand, the unionized workpeople have 25 per cent of major probabilities of having medical insurance paid for the employer, as well as pension plans.
It is not a coincidence that the breach between the very rich ones and most of the workpeople of the United States is every time major, as the trade union percentage of jobs has come diminishing. The economic and social well-being of the nation depends being able to support a healthy middle class, which only is possible by means of better wages for the persons who support the economy in movement across his hard work. The attention in health, training and the benefits that provide the trade unions they can have an immediate and large-scale impact in the life of the workpeople and of his families, as well as of the economy in general.
The Law of Free Option of the Personnel would provide again a just opportunity to the workpeople to be able to affiliate to a trade union without interferences. What they prefer to do is his decision. Just person as it must be.
(*) the Director for the Cardinal Area 32BJ, of the trade union of workpeople of services SEIU.
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